ZINC15:Syntax

ZINC 15 uses a uniform set of rules to interpret the URL allowing both web pages and a machine-readable application programming interface (API). This page describes both. The general form of the ZINC15 URL is:

http[s]://host/resource[.format[:properties][/variant][?page-view-controls | resource-constraints]

where items in [ square brackets ] are optional, and:

• host = zinc15.docking.org. during beta it is something else. ask us.
• resource is one of the 15 ZINC15:Resources. By far the most common are substances, catalogs and genes.
• format is one of the 12 ZINC15:Formats. If omitted, a web page is requested.
• properties is one or more of the ZINC15:properties. Not all properties make sense in all resource contexts. ZINC15:Examples are provided. There are sensible defaults for each resource, so the property specification may be omitted.
• variant is optionally one or more of the supported ZINC15:Variants.
• ZINC15:Page Controls are optional, and are used to qualify how a search is to be performed and formatted for the page.
• ZINC15:Constraints are optional, and may be qualified with ZINC15:Query operators

reserved words

• list, tile, subsets, help, overview - these have special meaning in the URL, and can never be the names of resources or their columns.

We illustrate the use of the website and the API with ZINC15:examples.

The new interface is described in a set of web accessible tools that exemplify its use:

iPython Notebooks

• as well as numerous examples in the Results, available online at ZINC15:examples.

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