This web application runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Structures you draw or paste are converted in your browser and are not sent to a server. Two things do leave your browser, both only when you ask for them: the report form sends a structure you explicitly choose to report, and a PubChem lookup sends the identifier you typed — SID 24866042 or CID 2244 — to PubChem’s PUG REST service, which returns the record. No structure of yours is sent in that request, but PubChem does see your IP address and which record you asked for. Running everything locally comes at the cost that the initial loading might take a while, since the structure editor and the InChI libraries have to be downloaded first (they would otherwise live on a server). If the application behaves unexpectedly, try clearing your browser cache and reloading the page (CTRL + F5 in most browsers). Clearing the cache helps because an update might have changed files that are now in conflict with the files in your browser cache.
This site counts page views with
Matomo, hosted by the Beilstein-Institut at
matomo.beilstein.org. It records that a page was opened
and which links were followed, and it sees your IP address. No
structure you draw, paste or convert will ever be logged without your
consent.
Acknowledgements
We'd like to express our gratitude to the developers of the open source projects we're depending on:
- We're rendering structures using the NGL Viewer (github.com/nglviewer/ngl, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bty419)
- We're using Ketcher as our structure editor (github.com/epam/ketcher)
Contact
If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback, please reach out to us: inchi@ac.rwth-aachen.de. We especially encourage you to report problematic structures (please include a molfile along with a description of the problem). You can also submit an issue via our GitHub repository.
Funding
The development of this web application has been supported by the following organizations:
