ChemZoo Inc (the menagerie behind ChemSpider.com) and the UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry have joined forces to create an InChI Resolver. This unique, free service allows scientists to share chemical structures and data transparently using the standard linear chemical structure format (InChI).

An InChI is an IUPAC standard identifier for compounds and provides a neat way to share chemical information when a 2D or 3D molecular structure cannot be transmitted. It has the advantage of being nothing but an alphanumeric string, which means it can be Googled from any web resource.

According to the press blurb: “The RSC/ChemSpider InChI Resolver will give researchers the tools to create standard InChI data for their own compounds, create and use search engine-friendly InChIKeys to search for compounds, and deposit their data for others to use in the future.”

Thanks to Chemspiderman, Tony Williams, for alerting us to the source.