Chemical Coding Course
Gain expertise in chemical coding using InChI, InChIKey, SMILES, and exact mass calculations. Master data standardisation, quality control checks, and database queries. Develop robust workflows with RDKit and Open Babel for producing clean, dependable molecular structure data suitable for practical chemistry applications in Kenyan research settings.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This course equips you with hands-on skills to encode, standardise, and validate molecular data effectively. Master InChI, InChIKey, SMILES notations, manage stereochemistry, tautomers, charges, and create naming conventions. Construct reliable pipelines using RDKit, Open Babel, and public APIs, generate tidy CSV outputs, perform integrity validations, and resolve database discrepancies for high-quality, reusable chemical datasets.
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Develop skills
- Encode molecular structures using InChI, InChIKey, and SMILES notations quickly and accurately.
- Standardise molecules by normalising salts, tautomers, and charges following established protocols.
- Automate chemical data processing with RDKit and Open Babel to produce clean CSV and TSV files.
- Validate chemical records through structural quality checks, deduplication, and stereochemistry corrections.
- Extract data from PubChem, ChEMBL, and DrugBank APIs to build reliable datasets.
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