Stereochemistry in Molfile and SMILES

The basic idea of specifying the priority of the atoms around a stereocenter in order to obtain a stereodescriptor is also incorporated into the most widespread structure representations, the Molfile and SMILES (see Sections 2.3.3, and 2.4.6). 

In both encodings, stereoisomerism is discussed with an example of chirality and cisjtrans isomerism. 

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