The open source chemicalStripes 7 R package is available on GitLab and was developed to create the chemical stripes figure for one or more specific chemicals by PubChem Compound IDs (CIDs). The default is a single CID (Figure ), while multiple chemical forms (e.g. salts, stereoisomers) can be handled by inputting multiple CIDs to form summarized stripes (Figure ). CIDs can be obtained easily from multiple starting queries using PubChem search functionality . In addition to the input CID(s), users can specify a date range (default 1960-2023), mode (patent or literature) and opt for a colourblind friendly version. The patent data is retrieved from the "Depositor Supplied Patent Identifiers" section 9 of the respective CIDs, while the literature data is retrieved from the "Consolidated References" section . The default colour range is green through yellow to red (Figure , C, D), reproducing a trafficlight scheme distinctive from both the warming and biodiversity stripes already produced, whereas the colourblind friendly version is blue to red (Figure ), very similar to the warming stripes (and hence not the preferred default). The chemical stripes function begins by checking package dependencies and loading necessary libraries. It then retrieves compound information, including the compound name, molecular formula, and number of patents filed. If patent data is available, this is then downloaded and processed, generating the stripe plot using the ggplot2 package , both displaying and saving the output as PNG, see examples in Figure . For further details see the chemicalStripes repository 7 .