Response to the comment by Wolf Ihlenfeldt on the paper "Indexing molecules with chemical graph identifiers"
The main objective of our article published in J Comput Chem 2011, 32, 2638 was to introduce a modified and further extended version of the molecular equivalence number naming adaption of the Morgan algorithm (J Chem Inf Comput Sci 2001, 41, 181) for the generation of a chemical graph identifier (CGI) Excluding references and conclusions, this covered six out of the eight text pages of the manuscript. As when new algorithms are presented it is advisable, whenever possible, to compare the results with those obtained with other existing established methods, a section was added to include the results from InChIKeys and Cactvs hashcodes. Thus, for the sake of clarity, Dr. Ihlenfeldt's comment on our article is exclusively about the references made on some of the Cactvs results in this final two page section. In response to the three listed problem cases:
J. Comput. Chem.