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A while back, I used chemspider.com at some point to get structures from a SMILES string. I found that it wouldn't get some strings, so I switched to chemicalize.org. The site appears to have been taken over and doesn't read SMILES strings anymore. I found this site in this answer, but yet again there are some strings it won't read.

I want to do a SMILES demonstration in a comp lab, so I'd rather have a website instead of having to install a program. Is there any online, free SMILES interpreter?

Edit: I'm looking for an entirely online, no-install-required translator.

Kurzd
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    Have you tried this site? – airhuff May 15 '17 at 22:02
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    Assuming you need the structures for further computations, consider openbabel (http://openbabel.org/wiki/Main_Page). – Buttonwood May 15 '17 at 22:14
  • @airhuff I like that visualizator, but it doesn't like salts or stereochemistry, nor gives the name of the molecule. – Kurzd May 15 '17 at 22:19
  • @DSVA I am looking for an entirely online solution. – Kurzd May 15 '17 at 22:20
  • @Buttonwood Not right now but I'll have a look for further use. – Kurzd May 15 '17 at 22:20
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    @Kurzd For structure <-> SMILES, this Marvin js demo (as in Elsevier's Reaxys) may be something: https://marvinjs-demo.chemaxon.com/latest/demo.html Does however not offer the structure -> name conversion you aim for. – Buttonwood May 15 '17 at 22:28
  • @Kurzd the first two answers in the linked post got both a solution which is entirely online. And if it's a comp lab I really don't understand why it would be a problem to use actual software. All you need is a server (even a raspberry would do it), throw open babel and jmol or pymol on that and you are done. Structure to name is a whole different beast. – DSVA May 15 '17 at 22:44
  • @Buttonwood Marvin will do for now :D. It's from the company that took over chemicalize.org, so I hope it stays available for a long time. – Kurzd May 15 '17 at 23:13
  • @DSVA Installing software is a hassle, and the Cactus site is cumbersome. The raspberry suggestion is neat but it's impossible for me to do it. – Kurzd May 15 '17 at 23:18
  • Go to chemapps.stolaf.edu/jmol/jmol.php?model=["ENTER SMILES HERE"] – Pritt says Reinstate Monica May 16 '17 at 04:20
  • @PrittBalagopal I tried with linear and cyclic molecules, but all I got was a pink sphere and seemingly no way to rotate it. What am I missing? – Kurzd May 16 '17 at 04:59
  • @Kurzd I get that installing software might be cumbersome, but openbabel is extremly easy to install on both windows and linux and it can produce pngs of SMILES extremly easy. It's also an very helpful program if you ever deal with any kind of 3D structures. And I'm really wondering what kind of comp lab doesn't have the opportunity to have software installed on the clients or on a linux server (you can use the open babel method from command line, you don't even need X-server) – DSVA May 16 '17 at 15:28
  • @DSVA I'd have to make a request for software to be installed. I've requested TeX Live twice, but nothing has happened. As far as I know there's no linux server either. I'll suggest open babel to my classmates in case they want to do some testing on their own computers. – Kurzd May 17 '17 at 04:24
  • @Kurzd TeXLive has a portable version. You can set it up yourself assuming your PC isn't designed to reset at every logon. (Similar to steady state in the past.) – DetlevCM Jun 01 '17 at 12:27
  • And here is another website that understands SMILES: http://rmg.mit.edu/molecule_search – DetlevCM Jun 01 '17 at 12:28

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