Scanlon, Shagufta A.Ridley, Mick J.2016-10-072016-10-072013Scanlon, S. and Ridley, M. (2013) A fully reversible data transform technique enhancing data compression of SMILES data. In: Cuzzocrea, A., et al. (Eds.) Availability, Reliability and Security in Information Systems and HCI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8127. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 54-68.90009565http://hdl.handle.net/10454/9725noThe requirement to efficiently store and process SMILES data used in Chemoinformatics creates a demand for efficient techniques to compress this data. General-purpose transforms and compressors are available to transform and compress this type of data to a certain extent, however, these techniques are not specific to SMILES data. We develop a transform specific to SMILES data that can be used alongside other general-purpose compressors as a preprocessor and post-processor to improve the compression of SMILES data. We test our transform with six other general-purpose compressors and also compare our results with another transform on our SMILES data corpus, we also compare our results with untransformed data.SMILES; Data transform; Data compressionBook Sectionhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40511-2_5