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Incomplete SMILES related to double bonds [message #278]

Tue, 30 May 2017 14:26

Christoph
Messages: 9
Registered: May 2017

Junior Member

Hello,

the SMILES which DataWarrior creates do not seem to be specific enough. E.g. for double bonds it does not encode the direction of the adjacent bonds.

See also point 3.3.2 in www.daylight.com/dayhtml/doc/theory/theory.smiles.html

This is a very important problem, and for me also urgent because on the SMILES all my work on the molecules is based and nearly every compound has double bonds.

Best wishes,
Christoph

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Re: Incomplete SMILES related to double bonds [message #281 is a reply to message #278]

Fri, 02 June 2017 22:24

thomas
Messages: 715
Registered: June 2014

Senior Member

Hello Christoph,

this is not really a bug. The problem is that DataWarrior generates a normal SMILES, not an 'isomeric SMILES'. Only the latter contains the stereo configuration of double bonds and tetrahedral center. The SMILES generation is a really historic functionality and was never enhanced to the isomeric level, because at Actelion we never had the need for it, because even isomeric SMILES don't support the enhanced stereo representation that we use as internal standard. However, since the external world uses SMILES rather often and in triggered by the need to correctly interpret Wikipedia compounds I have enhanced the SMILES interpreter to fully support isomeric SMILES. Enhancing also the SMILES export accordingly is an obvious thing to do. I cannot promise anything, but I will look into the matter...

Thomas

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Re: Incomplete SMILES related to double bonds [message #285 is a reply to message #281]

Sun, 04 June 2017 13:39

Christoph
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Registered: May 2017

Junior Member

Hi Thomas,

Thank you very much for your answer and looking into this issue.

Saving the structures in DataWarrior in the SDF-format (2D) does preserve the stereocenters, is this correct? Then a workaround in the meantime until DataWarrior is updated would be to save the compounds as SDF-File and then convert it with obabel to obtain isomeric SMILES.

Best wishes,
Christoph

[Updated on: Sun, 04 June 2017 13:39]

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Re: Incomplete SMILES related to double bonds [message #287 is a reply to message #285]

Fri, 09 June 2017 14:25

Christoph
Messages: 9
Registered: May 2017

Junior Member

Short Update: I have tested this idea with a few compounds, it seems to work.

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