Towards a chemistry-aware desktop: a new Strigi extension

Jerome Pansanel  (15 May 2007)

Strigi. Strigi is a daemon which uses a very fast and efficient crawler that can index data on your harddrive. Indexing operations are performed without hammering your system, this makes Strigi the fastest and smallest desktop searching program.

Strigi can index different file formats, including the contents of the archive files. A detailed list of the supported file formats is available on this page. Strigi can be run from different OS and window manager. It has been written focusing on portability and extendability.

Strigi is being fully deployed for KDE 4. This makes KDE able to extract informations about files of various types, i.e. chemical file formats. KDE3 can already retrieve metadata from chemical files by using the kfile-chemical plugin, but Strigi and KDE4 promises many improvements. For example, Strigi can help chemical informations to be semantically marked up.

Strigi Chemistry Extension. The development of a chemical extension for Strigi started on March 2007. Most of the supported file formats are issued from the kfile-chemical project. The following file formats are supported:
  Alchemy
  Cif
  Cml
  Daylight Smiles
  Gaussian Input
  Genbank
  Inchi
  Jcamp-Dx
  Macromodel Input
  MDL Molfile
  MDL Rxnfile
  MDL SDFile
  Mol2
  PDB
  Shelx
  Vmd
  Xyz

Further developments. A project has been proposed for the Summer of Code by Carsten Niehaus, Jerome Pansanel, Egon Willighagen and Jos van den Oever and approved. You can find more informations about the project on this web page.

If you want to debug / test the code, you can checkout the svn on: svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/utils/kfile-chemical/STRIGI