ReactionCode

ReactionCode encodes chemical reactions into a multi-layered, machine-readable format that aggregates reactants and products into a Condensed Graph of Reaction (CGR) to support reaction representation, searching, classification, transformation, and computational analyses including machine learning.


Key Features:

  • Multi-Layered Encoding: Encodes and decodes chemical reactions into a multi-layered machine-readable format that aggregates reactants and products into a Condensed Graph of Reaction (CGR).
  • Flexibility and Versatility: Supports reaction similarity searching and classification across diverse computational contexts in chemical informatics.
  • Database Organization: Provides a structured representation for storage and retrieval of complex reaction data to improve database organization.
  • Machine Learning Applications: Produces machine-readable reaction representations suitable as input for machine learning algorithms for reaction analysis and prediction.
  • Transform Reaction Language: Acts as a transform reaction language to enable conversion and manipulation of reaction data across formats and platforms to support interoperability.

Scientific Applications:

  • Chemical/Cheminformatics: Representation and comparison of chemical reactions within cheminformatics workflows.
  • Drug Discovery: Encoding reaction data to support exploration of reaction pathways relevant to medicinal chemistry and synthesis planning.
  • Materials Science: Structuring reaction information to aid analysis of synthetic routes and material-related reactions.
  • Reaction Mechanism Analysis: Supporting exploration of reaction mechanisms and identification of reaction pathways via condensed graph representations.
  • Reaction Classification and Similarity Searching: Enabling classification of reactions based on structural or functional similarities and facilitating similarity searches.

Methodology:

Encoding and decoding reactions into a multi-layered machine-readable format that aggregates reactants and products into a Condensed Graph of Reaction (CGR), and using that representation for searching, classification, transformation, and as input for machine learning.

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Added:
1/18/2021
Last Updated:
2/4/2021

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Publications

Delannée V, Nicklaus M. ReactionCode: Format for Reaction Searching, Analysis, Classification, Transform, and Encoding/Decoding. Unknown Journal. 2020. doi:10.26434/chemrxiv.12058971.v3.