Talk:Mauveine
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To generate InChI identifiers for molecules, use eg this page
What will be of interest is to see if a Wiki search of these strings retrieves the article correctly. See for example this article.
This would, if it works, allow molecular structure searching (but not sub-structure) in Wikipedia. It is unfortunately, currently only a matter of conjecture how many valid molecules have been deposited into Wikipedia articles. Perhaps 1000 or so? Many more? In theory, a search for the string InChI=1/ would give us an answer, assuming each molecule had an InChI!
[edit] Delay in updating the search index
From the help page, one finds this
For reasons of efficiency and priority, very recent changes are not always immediately taken into account in searchers At the moment, the search engine uses an index that isn't updated at all.
That means I could not test for an InChI.
