FAIR chemical structures in the Journal of Cheminformatics

• Published in: Journal of cheminformatics Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 50 - 3
• Main Authors: Schymanski, Emma L., Bolton, Evan E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 07.07.2021; BioMed Central Ltd; Springer Nature B.V; BMC
• Subjects: Accessibility; Chemical database; Chemical deposition; Chemical information; Cheminformatics; Chemistry; Chemistry and Materials Science; Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) Pilot; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics; Computer Applications in Chemistry; Documentation and Information in Chemistry; Informatics; Interoperability; Letter to the Editor; Open access; Open science; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry; Open repository; Cheminformatics; Chemical information; Open science; FAIR; Chemical deposition; Data archive; Chemical database; Supplementary material; Open access
• ISSN: 1758-2946; 1758-2946
• DOI: 10.1186/s13321-021-00520-4

The ability to access chemical information openly is an essential part of many scientific disciplines. The Journal of Cheminformatics is leading the way for rigorous, open cheminformatics in many ways, but there remains room for improvement in primary areas. This letter discusses how both authors and the journal alike can help increase the FAIR ness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, Reusability) of the chemical structural information in the journal. A proposed chemical structure template can serve as an interoperable Additional File format (already accessible ), made more findable by linking the DOI of this data file to the article DOI metadata, supporting further reuse .