A Universal Structure/Substructure Representation for PC-Host Communication
John M. Barnard, Clemens J. Jochum, Stephen M. Welford · ACS symposium series · 1989
The development of PC-mainframe communication programs for chemical structure searching is discussed. The configuration of the MOLKICK and S4 programs is outlined, and the ROSDAL string format, used to transmit chemical structure representations between PC and mainframe, is described. ROSDAL is an ASCII character string, which can be used both for uploading of queries and downloading of retrieved file structures. Its simple syntax allows both ease of automatic interconversion with other representations, and manual encoding and decoding.