ExtendedTautomers

Extended Tautomers

Working Group Chair:  Marc Nicklaus

Working Group Members: Gerd Blanke; Evan Bolton; Alex M. Clark; Bret Daniel; Devendra Dhaked; Laura Guasch; Wolf; Dietrich Ihlenfeldt; Gregory Landrum; John W. Mayfield; Hitesh Patel; Roger Sayle; Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi

Description

90 tautomeric transforms were identified and six could be incorporated in an experimental version of the InChI  code (based on InChI version 1.06). Initial tests of these six new rules plus the existing non-standard  tautomeric InChI options KET and 15T have been performed. See the report “Tautomers in InChI” <link broken for now> presented at the March 2021 NIH InChI Workshop <workshop link>.

One step that still needs to  be performed before a version of the InChI tool with the six new rules incorporated can be offered as an  experimental release to the public is a round-tripping test of the nature struct -> InChI -> struct’ ->  InChI’, with comparison of InChI’ vs. InChI. 

The papers forming the scientific background of this project have been published  (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.9b01080 and https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.9b01156).

Working Group Members

Gerd Blanke

Principal Consultant and Managing Director, StructurePendium Technologies GmbH

Evan Bolton

Head, Chemistry Program at NCBI

Alex M. Clark

Research Scientist, Collaborative Drug Discovery

Greg Landrum

Senior Scientist at ETH Zürich

Marc C. Nicklaus

Senior Scientist at National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Roger Sayle

CEO and FounderCEO NextMove