# smiles

A specification in form of a line notation for describing the structure of chemical species using short ASCII strings.  Double bond stereochemistry \\ indicators may need to be escaped in the string in formats where the backslash is an escape character.

## Expected Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [Text](https://schema.org.ai/Text) | Data type: Text. |

## Used on Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| [MolecularEntity](https://schema.org.ai/MolecularEntity) | Any constitutionally or isotopically distinct atom, molecule, ion, ion pair, radical, radical ion, complex, conformer etc., identifiable as a separately distinguishable entity. |

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