#1 InChI Prefix

[pmatos]

Hi,

I was just wondering if there was a technical
explanation why there is a prefix in the InChI string.
It already generates quite large strings so would it
not be a good idea to omit it in future releases?

Here is an example of water,
InChI=1/H2O/h1H2

The prefix 'InChI=' seems redundant to me?

Regards,
Paula

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Absoltely not. This prefix makes the string identifiable
amoung other data, for example Web pages. These are just a
few bytes nobody cares about in today's storage systems.