https://mazziotti.uchicago.edu/qcdictionary/tags/cheminformatics/index.html Hugo en-us Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:33:20 -0600 https://mazziotti.uchicago.edu/qcdictionary/s_terms/smiles/index.html Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:33:20 -0600 https://mazziotti.uchicago.edu/qcdictionary/s_terms/smiles/index.html SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) is a line notation for encoding the structure of a molecule as a short ASCII string. It is widely used in cheminformatics and chemical databases for representing molecular graphs in a compact, human-readable form that can be parsed and used for chemical computations and searching.