Line notation
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Line notation is a typographical notation system using ASCII
ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...

 characters, most often used for chemical nomenclature
IUPAC nomenclature
A chemical nomenclature is a set of rules to generate systematic names for chemical compounds. The nomenclature used most frequently worldwide is the one created and developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ....

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Line notation is a word and symbol description of an electrochemical cell widely used in chemistry.

Chemistry

  • International Chemical Identifier
    International Chemical Identifier
    The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier is a textual identifier for chemical substances, designed to provide a standard and human-readable way to encode molecular information and to facilitate the search for such information in databases and on the web...

     (InChI)
  • ROSDAL
  • Wiswesser Line Notation
    Wiswesser Line Notation
    Wiswesser Line Notation, also referred to as WLN, invented by William J. Wiswesser in 1949, was the first line notation capable of precisely describing complex molecules. It was the basis of ICI Ltd's CROSSBOW database system developed in the late 1960's...

     (WLN)
  • Simplified molecular input line entry specification
    Simplified molecular input line entry specification
    The simplified molecular-input line-entry specification or SMILES is a specification in form of a line notation for describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings...

     (SMILES)
  • Smiles arbitrary target specification
    Smiles arbitrary target specification
    SMiles ARbitrary Target Specification is a language for specifying substructural patterns in molecules. The SMARTS line notation is expressive and allows extremely precise and transparent substructural specification and atom typing....

     (SMARTS)
  • SYBYL Line Notation
    SYBYL Line Notation
    The SYBYL line notation or SLN is a specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings....

    (SLN)
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