Why should chemists adopt the likes of InChI and CML?
We needed a meaningful way of identifying compounds uniquely and one that’s machine readable—InChI fits the bill. Similarly, CML offers us a way of structuring lots of the science within a paper to both preserve the original science and do interesting things with it, and by demonstrating some of these applications, we hope to encourage wider adoption. How might this new approach tie in with other efforts, such as PubChem? Depends if you mean formally or otherwise. We’ll certainly link to PubChem in time, our view is that the more papers that are linked, the higher their visibility is and the more useful they become to the reader. Can you give us an example of how your approach will benefit those readers? In the short term, readers can see a definition of terms within the articles and link directly to other articles which are related by that concept; if you try this feature, it is incredibly useful. Similarly, they can see structures of important compounds and also link to other RSC pap
