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About four and a half years ago, I started OpenMolecules RDF, a spin off from\nChemical blogspace (Cb, which is still up and running thanks to Peter Maas!) where\nI started using InChIs in URIs . My\ninterest came from the dereferencability, the ability to take an InChI and find information about the chemical\nstructure representated by it. Because information about anything is scattered around the internet, and we need\nsomething decentralized . Moreover,\nat the time searching of InChIs with search engines like Google did not work well at all: InChIs were tokenized\nin inconvenient ways.

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Originally, these URIs for InChIs were provided (and still are) by Cb, this July five years ago:

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http://cb.openmolecules.net/rdf/?InChI=1/CH4/h1H4\n
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for which soon after a separate domain was instantiated (thanx to Geoff!):

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http://rdf.openmolecules.net/?InChI=1/CH4/h1H4\n
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Mind you, OpenMolecules RDF is a decent citizen of the Linked Open Data network, though not much linked to.\nThe ChEMBL-RDF data is, and love to hear if there are other link sets\npointing there. On the outlinking side, it points to ChEBI (via\nBio2RDF), DBPedia, ChemSpider\n(for 10k structures), the NMRShiftDB ,\nand Cb itself. This post describes the adding of the link to DBPedia .

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In the past few years, I have written up bits on OpenMolecules RDF. The main reference is our chapter in Beautiful Data (Willighagen, 2010),\nwhere I used the URIs for the solubility data .\nIt was later also described in the Linking the Resource Description Framework to cheminformatics and proteochemometrics paper (Willighagen, 2011),\nand another book chapter (Guha, 2011).

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This blog features a few more use cases, such as the ability to use these URIs to bookmark molecules or to\nannotate them with tags with Connotea \n(which resulted in a nice lunch with the Nature people at the time).\nThe link to Connotea is disabled at the moment, though.

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At this moment the system still holds, though there is problem in that browsers can put practical limits on\nURIs length, which limits the maximum size of the InChI. Virtuoso does this too.

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References

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Guha, R., Spjuth, O., & Willighagen, E. (2011). Collaborative Cheminformatics Applications. In Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research (pp. 399–422). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118026038.ch24 CrossRef Scholia
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Willighagen, E. L., Alvarsson, J., Andersson, A., Eklund, M., Lampa, S., Lapins, M., Spjuth, O., & Wikberg, J. E. (2011). Linking the Resource Description Framework to cheminformatics and proteochemometrics. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2(S1). https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-2-s1-s6 CrossRef Scholia
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Willighagen, E., Bradley, J.-C., Guha, R., Lang, A., Lindenbaum, P., Neylon, C., & Williams, A. (2010). Beautifying Data in the Real World. Nature Precedings. https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.4918.1 CrossRef Scholia
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