Announcement: Online SMILES Generator - NEW VERSION

A new, expanded version of the Online SMILES Translator service is
 available on both servers of the Erlangen/Bethesda Data and Online
 Services.  This service is primarily designed to allow Unique SMILES
 (USMILES) string generation from a variety of input formats and methods:
 - Direct drawing of a structure in the Java Molecular Editor
 - Cut-and-past of an existing SMILES string
 - Submission of single- and multiple-structure files in SDF, PDB, MOL,
 SMILES (.txt) format (in fact, any input format CACTVS understands).
 Instead of USMILES, you can also specify SDF, PDB or MOL as the output
 format for the conversion.
 Please note that the Unique SMILES definition used in our service is the
 one published by Daylight in 1989, which is the only one currently publicly
 available as far as we know.  (D. Weininger, A. Weininger, and J.L.
 Weininger, SMILES. 2. Algorithm for Generation of Unique SMILES Notation,
 J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1989, 29, 97-101.)  Dave Weininger promised us to
 post the current USMILES definition on Daylight's web site.  When this happens,
 we'll have a look at updating our algorithms.
 The URLs of the German and U.S. servers are, respectively:
 http://www2.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/services/translate/
 http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/services/translate/
 Please read the service's Help text for user instructions and some additional
 information.
 Thank goes to Frank Oellien of the Computer Chemistry Center, University
 of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, for implementing this service.
 For feedback and bug reports, please e-mail to:
 Frank Oellien <Frank.Oellien (+ at +) chemie.uni-erlangen.de>  and/or
 Marc Nicklaus <mn1 (+ at +) helix.nih.gov>.
 As always, other services that you may find useful are available on our servers
 at the following URLs:
 http://www2.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/services/
 http://cactus.nci.nih.gov
 Enjoy!
 Marc
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  Marc C. Nicklaus, Ph.D.                 NIH/NCI at Frederick
  E-mail: mn1 (+ at +) helix.nih.gov               Bldg 376, Rm 207
  Phone:  (301) 846-5903                  376 Boyles Street
  Fax:    (301) 846-6033                  FREDERICK, MD 21702      USA
           Head, Computer-Aided Drug Design MiniCore Facility
      Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry, Center for Cancer Research,
  National Cancer Institute at Frederick, National Institutes of Health
        http://rex.nci.nih.gov/RESEARCH/basic/medchem/mcnbio.htm
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