rinchi – An R package to generate InChI’s and InChI Keys

While trying to update rcdk on CRAN it was pointed out to me that usage of the library resulted in modifications to the users home directory. Specifically, this occurred when generating InChI‘s. The CDK makes use of jni-inchi, which in turn depends on JNATI which enables Java code to work with native libraries in a platform […]

Accessing Chemistry on the Web Using Firefox

With the profusion of chemical information on the web – in the form of chemical names, images of structures, specific codes (InChI etc), it’s sometimes very useful to be able to seamlessly retrieve some extra information while browsing a page that contains such entities. The usual way is to copy the InChI/SMILES/CAS/name string and paste […]