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MedChemProf is currently offline  MedChemProf
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Dear DataWarrior Forum Members,

I would like to start using the "Retrieve Wikipedia Molecules" function in the Database options of DataWarrior. I am certainly not a database wizard and don't have any experience writing search scripts for databases. Is there either a way to tell or a description of the "Retrieve Wikipedia Molecules" option? I am trying to understand specifically what it is looking for when it queries Wikipedia.

Thank you, Chase
Re: Retrieve Wikipedia Molecules [message #838 is a reply to message #837] Fri, 03 April 2020 15:51 Go to previous message
nbehrnd is currently offline  nbehrnd
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Dear Chase,

using this function requests DW to create a local table, comprising molecular structure, compound
name, Hill formula, and molecular weight for each entry about chemical compounds in the (English
version of) wikipedia. The source for this is the little «info box» the English wikipedia shows
on the right hand top corner of each article. A priori both molecular [organic] compounds
(like lutidine) as well as inorganic compounds (like sodium chloride) are considered; currently
summing up 17421 entries.

This local table may serve you as starting point for any computations with DW including the search
by name, (sub)structure and structure similarity; a click with the right mouse button will direct
you to the corresponding wikipedia entry. The functionality is related to the on-line service of
Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer at http://www.cheminfo.org/wikipedia.

Its «inner working» was published in

Ertl, P., Patiny, L., Sander, T., Ruferner, C., Zasso, M. Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer:
substructure and similarity searching of molecules from Wikipedia. J Cheminform 7, 10 (2015)

as open access article https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-015-0061-y

[Updated on: Fri, 03 April 2020 16:01]

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