Friday, 19 August 2011

Chemoinformatics - some key points (by Ben Allen)

What is Chemoinformatics?

Definition

“The application of informatics methods to solve chemical problems”

Methods

·         Databases of chemical structures
o   Searching
§  Similarity methods
§  QSAR
§  Virtual screening
o   Creating
§  Computational library design
§  Molecular enumeration
§  Combinatorial  chemistry
·         Chemical structures
o   2D
§  Graph theory
o   3D
o   Plus other information
§  Calculated properties
§  Experimental values
·         High throughput screening
·         Databases
o   Can be very large (103-1012 compounds)
o   Often biologically active

Applications

·         Pharmaceutical
o   Biggest area of interest/development
·         Agrochemical
·         Food chemistry

Overlaps

·         Computer science
·         Information studies J
·         Bioinformatics

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