Standard format for exchange

JCAMP-DX, a standard format for exchange of infrared spectra in computer readable form (Recommendations 1991), Pure Appl. Chem., 1991, 63, 1781-1792. 

Sometimes it is helpful to approach a problem at the level of a 5-year-old child. Young children specialize in the one-word interrogative, Why If you went home to your 5-year-old and said Son, Mommy (or Daddy) is working on a standard format for exchanging chemical structure data , little Johnny may well say Why . Johnny is not as naive as those of us with years of schooling for it is a very valid and perceptive question. 

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