{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "faa87047", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Structural Search\n", "\n", "This notebook demonstrates two structural-search workflows. The first uses the live NIST Chemistry WebBook structural-search endpoint. The second searches a tiny local CSV index fixture using RDKit and the indexed InChI/InChIKey fields.\n", "\n", "RDKit is required for SMILES/InChI conversion and for local structural search. Install it with `pip install -e \".[structure]\"` or with `conda install -c conda-forge rdkit`." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 1, "id": "80c62a06", "metadata": { "execution": { "iopub.execute_input": "2026-05-20T17:38:18.839482Z", "iopub.status.busy": "2026-05-20T17:38:18.839294Z", "iopub.status.idle": "2026-05-20T17:38:19.334941Z", "shell.execute_reply": "2026-05-20T17:38:19.334401Z" } }, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "\n", "True\n" ] } ], "source": [ "import nistchempy as nist\n", "\n", "molblock = nist.molblock_from_smiles('c1ccccc1')\n", "print(molblock.splitlines()[0])\n", "print('M END' in molblock)" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "4748dfe3", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Live WebBook structural search\n", "\n", "The live structural search sends a MOL block to the WebBook. Passing a MOL file or MOL block does not require RDKit, but this example uses RDKit to convert SMILES to a MOL block first." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 2, "id": "bd9317fd", "metadata": { "execution": { "iopub.execute_input": "2026-05-20T17:38:19.336386Z", "iopub.status.busy": "2026-05-20T17:38:19.336142Z", "iopub.status.idle": "2026-05-20T17:38:20.222826Z", "shell.execute_reply": "2026-05-20T17:38:20.222343Z" } }, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "(True, 1, ['C71432'])" ] }, "execution_count": 2, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "search = nist.run_structural_search(\n", " smiles='c1ccccc1',\n", " search_type='struct',\n", ")\n", "search.success, search.num_compounds, search.compound_ids[:5]" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "id": "1d09b6d5", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Local structural search over an index\n", "\n", "The local index stores InChI and InChIKey values. With RDKit installed, NistChemPy can screen those indexed structures locally. This is a linear scan over the CSV table, not a persistent fingerprint database." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 3, "id": "0bbdbfe5", "metadata": { "execution": { "iopub.execute_input": "2026-05-20T17:38:20.224024Z", "iopub.status.busy": "2026-05-20T17:38:20.223896Z", "iopub.status.idle": "2026-05-20T17:38:20.247426Z", "shell.execute_reply": "2026-05-20T17:38:20.246872Z" } }, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/html": [ "
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