InChI, the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier Stephen R Heller1, Alan McNaught2, Igor Pletnev, Stephen Stein and Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi Heller et al. Journal of Cheminformatics (2015) 7:23 DOI 10.1186/s13321-015-0068-4 Abstract: This paper documents the design, layout and algorithms of the IUPAC International Chemical Identifier, InChI.