Input field limits

This page summarizes the usual limit used for input fields. These limits are used client side to prevent users from entering additional information and server side as part of the validation. Most of these can be found search the frontend code for the maxLength property.

Field type	Number of characters	Comments
Text box	550
Description/Comments	2,000	Text boxes with a character limit counter
Sequence	5,000	Sequence fields for glycan and proteins sequences
ID	30
URL	2,048
Publication/Pubmed ID	100
File type	128
Keyword	50
inChiKey	27
inChi and smiles squences	10,000
Molecular Formula	256
PubChem Id	12
First/Last name	100
Department, Group, Affiliation, Affiliation webpage	250
Username	20