# smiles - Schema.org Property

> Source: https://schema.org/smiles
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T22:01:00.588Z

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A Schema.org Property

*This term is in the "new" area - implementation feedback and adoption from applications and websites can help improve our definitions.*

A specification in form of a line notation for describing the structure of chemical species using short ASCII strings. Double bond stereochemistry \\ indicators may need to be escaped in the string in formats where the backslash is an escape character.

### Values expected to be one of these types

`-   [Text](https://schema.org/Text "Text")`

#### Source

[http://www.bioschemas.org/MolecularEntity](http://www.bioschemas.org/MolecularEntity)