Hej Ola,

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Ola Spjuth <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing I think could be improved in CDK is the handling/description of
> post-processing after reading in chemical structures from different formats.

Understood. The problem is that formats not always have the same
information, but I get your point.

I have started a series with typical recipes for dealing with
particular file formats, and started with MDL, umm, Symyx, ummm,
Accelrys molfiles:

http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2011/10/cdk-file-formats-1-mdl-molfiles-and.html

> One way would be to device what steps need to be taken in CDK depending on
> choice of input format, but an even better way would be to have a method
> standardize(IAtomContainer) that would, regardless of previous file
> reading/formats, result in the same chemical representation with atom types
> and aromaticity detected etc.

OK, yes, that might be useful. There is a cdk.normalize package, which
would probably be the best place for such code.

Egon

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