Distribution

The utility is called cano-utility.exe in Windows distribution or simply cano-utility in Linux or Mac OS X distribution. On Linux and Mac OS X, you should have zlib installed on your system. As for Windows version, zlib is compiled into the executable, and so you do not need anything else installed.

Distributions are offered in 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Command-line parameters reference

The help message from the program is the following:

Usage:
  cano-utility filename.{mol,smi,sdf,sdf.gz} [parameters]
  cano-utility - SMILES [parameters]
Parameters:
  -smiles          Output canonical SMILES (default)
  -layered         Output canonical layered code
  -id <string>     ID field in SDF file
  -no-arom         Do not aromatize molecules
  -no-tetrahedral  Ignore tetrahedral stereocenters
  -no-cistrans     Ignore cis-trans bonds information
Examples:
   cano-utility infile.sdf
   cano-utility infile.sdf.gz -id molregno > results.txt
   cano-utility infile.smi -layered -no-cistrans
   cano-utility - 'NC1C=CC(O)=CC=1'