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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/readme Thu Aug 15 03:30:25 2013 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +OSRA: Optical Structure Recognition Application + +OSRA is a utility designed to convert graphical representations of chemical +structures, as they appear in journal articles, patent documents, textbooks, +trade magazines etc., into SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry +Specification - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMILES) or +SD files - a computer recognizable molecular structure format. +OSRA can read a document in any of the over 90 graphical formats parseable by +ImageMagick - including GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF, PS etc., and generate +the SMILES or SDF representation of the molecular structure images encountered +within that document. + +Note that any software designed for optical recognition is unlikely to be +perfect, and the output produced might, and probably will, contain errors, +so curation by a human knowledgeable in chemical structures is highly recommended. + +http://cactus.nci.nih.gov/osra/ + +The wrapper comes with an automatic installation of all dependencies through the +galaxy toolshed.