This script again relies on the excellent ExifTool by Phil Harvey (). In the previous tutorial (Applescript Tutorial 8) I showed how to use applescript to extract the information from the PNG file and then display the structure in a couple of chemical display packages in an editable form.Ī couple of people have asked for a tool to embed metadata into images and this script shows how to add SMILES string to a PNG file using ChemBioDraw. As we move to a more web-centric view of the world it is apparent that much of research information will be only available via the web, whilst images of chemical structures are usually adequate for a human viewer the chemical structure cannot be indexed and subsequently searched. Rich Apodaca has been discussing embedding molecular information in images of molecules, such as a PNG file depicting a 2D structure.
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