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Name to Structure Conversion - and What One Little Patent Might Do…
Posted by: Antony Williams in Community BuildingCopyright©2007 Antony Williams
Those of you watching this blog will likely have seen multiple conversations by myself regarding the conversion of chemical names to chemical structures. There are a number of commercial products on the market performing this conversion including those of ACD/Labs, Cambridgesoft, OpenEye, Cheminnovation and ChemAxon (soon). There may be others. Also, there are now efforts going on in academia.
Last week while searching for some information in the patent database I happened across an interesting patent.
The title and lead in is listed as:
| Method, system, and software for deriving chemical structural information A method and a system are provided for deriving chemical structures from chemical names. Chemical name fragments are grouped into a number of classifications. The method and the system handle new and old chemical names, including names for organic and inorganic substances. |
My interpretation of this patent is that this is for the conversion of Chemical Names to Chemical Structures (I am not a patent lawyer though). The patent was granted to Jonathan Brecher of Cambridgesoft as listed here. The patent was granted in 2006.
As a product manager and CSO at ACD/Labs I managed the Name to Structure functionality in their nomenclature software. There was a LOT of prior art when this patent was applied for, in my opinion. Products might not have been on the market but certainly a number of companies had such capabilities. This will be interesting to watch….
PS. If you THINK you know nomenclature take the Name Quiz here…
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October 15th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
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