Re: [Open Babel] 'Canonicalizing'

2015-10-22 Thread Nathan Pimental
Thanks, that worked wonderfully! now I just have to get the rest of my code up to shape... I'm writing a function to list all basic isomers (no rings) for a set number of carbon atoms. It checks for duplicates through canonization. Unfortunately, at the moment, the function is only returning the 'n

Re: [Open Babel] 'Canonicalizing'

2015-10-22 Thread Andrew Dalke
On Oct 23, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Nathan Pimental wrote: > I was wondering how one uses openbabel to convert smiles into canonical > (ordered) smiles format: the gui does it with ease, there's a check box for > this feature. I don't know VB, but if the following (almost) worked > Dim myObCo

[Open Babel] 'Canonicalizing'

2015-10-22 Thread Nathan Pimental
I hope this isn't too much of an annoyance (I'm not very good at reading the API), but I was wondering how one uses openbabel to convert smiles into canonical (ordered) smiles format: the gui does it with ease, there's a check box for this feature. I'm using VB.NET, but if someone knows how to