Abstract: This poster will describe an Open Education Resource, the InChI OER (https://www.inchi-trust.org/oer/), designed to help chemists, educators and students find information on, and applications of, the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier (InChI). InChI is a machine readable semantic identifier based on layered line notation for the representation of chemical structure, which with the InChI key represents a new digital nomenclature enabling a wide variety of 21st century semantic web applications and activities that support the practice of chemistry.
We will present OER content within the Intercollegiate Cheminformatics section of the LibreTexts hyperlibrary on the use of both InChI and the InChI OER, along with an overview of the working groups of the InChI subcommittee of IUPAC Division VIII; Chemical Nomenclature and Structure Representation.
Although this poster will cover the InChI line notation and the use of the InChI OER to obtain resources on InChI, our goal is to elicit discussion on the evolution of the practice of an empirical science like chemistry, and the role data science should play in the traditional undergraduate curriculum