MEMO FROM TO: TX

J. LEDERBERG RC
GENETICS DEPARTMENT BAF RO

STANFCRD UNIVERSITY
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA

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(1)°¢ Maybe we should revive the
project of learning how to program the
translation of Wiswesser to wJendral. This
has the importance of relating Dendral
facilities to the "rest of chemistry and
pharmacology" information services

we could even consider putting
into a meta-Vendral, regarding the
wiswesser code of a structure as the
data, and the xrxgwies rules of translation
as the "theory# intended to be elicited.
I do not mean an utter game out of this;
wiswesser superatoms might as well be
decoded as primitives. Hut the Wiswesser
Syntax is difficult to state analytically
anyhow, so we would save a lot of effort
if its restatement were mechanized.

I am sure that aud would re-
gard this as a vital project for his pur-
poses.