Current Status and Future Development in Relation to IUPAC Activities

摘要

The IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChl) is a non-proprietary, machine-read-able chemical structure representation format enabling electronic searching, and interlinking and combining, of chemical information from different sources. It was developed from 2001 onwards at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology under the auspices of IUPAC's Chemical Identifier project. Since 2009, the InChl Trust, a consortium of (mostly) publishers and software developers, has taken over responsibility for funding and oversight of InChl maintenance and development. Funding and responsibility for scientific aspects of InChl development remain with the IUPAC Division VIII (Chemical Nomenclature and Structure Representation) and InChl Subcommittee.