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= Wiswesser line notation
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Wiswesser Line Notation (WLN) is a system for representing chemical structures using a linear string of characters. Developed by the American chemist Robert Wiswesser in the 1960s, the primary purpose of WLN is to provide a compact and unambiguous way to encode chemical information, especially suited for computer processing and database management.