SMSD Pro — Substructure & Maximum Common Substructure Search
Copyright (c) 2018-2026 BioInception PVT LTD
Algorithm Copyright (c) 2009-2026 Syed Asad Rahman

This product includes software developed by Syed Asad Rahman
at BioInception PVT LTD (https://github.com/asad/SMSD).

ATTRIBUTION REQUIREMENT
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If you use SMSD Pro in academic research, you MUST cite:

  Rahman SA, Bashton M, Holliday GL, Schrader R, Thornton JM.
  Small Molecule Subgraph Detector (SMSD) toolkit.
  Journal of Cheminformatics, 1:12, 2009.

If you use SMSD Pro in a commercial product, you MUST retain this
NOTICE file in your distribution and include the following attribution
in your product documentation or About screen:

  "Powered by SMSD Pro (c) BioInception PVT LTD"

TRADEMARK NOTICE
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"SMSD", "SMSD Pro", and the BioInception DNA helix logo are trademarks
of Syed Asad Rahman / BioInception PVT LTD. You may not use these marks
to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior
written permission from the copyright holder.

NOVEL ALGORITHMS
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The following algorithms implemented in this software are original works
by Syed Asad Rahman and may be subject to patent protection:

  1. Tautomer-aware circular fingerprint with pKa-informed atom invariants
  2. 11-level MCS funnel with chain/tree DP fast-paths
  3. Henderson-Hasselbalch pH-dependent tautomer relevance weighting
  4. Tier 2 solvent-dependent pKa corrections for tautomer matching
  5. VF2++ with 3-level NLF pruning and GPU-accelerated domain initialization

THIRD-PARTY NOTICES
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This software uses the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) licensed under
LGPL 2.1. CDK is Copyright (c) The CDK Project.
