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.. _designing_the_topology_component:

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Designing the Topology Component
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TODO: More formal write-up

- Cheminformatics common to think of molecule as a graph
- topology allows modeling molecule independent of representation
- Needed for more familiar concepts like bonds, angles, torsions
- Key to graph-representation is a list of edges, i.e., bonds