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Cheminformatics is the utilize of computer & informational techniques, applied to a range of problems in the field of chemistry. As well referred to as chemoinformatics & chemical ip, these techniques come utilized inside pharmaceutical companies in the process of Drug Discovery.
Basics
A Cheminformatics combines a scientific working fields of Chemistry and Computer science especially in the area of chemical Graph theory (Bonchev/Rouvray, 1990) and mining a chemical substance space. These are to exist as potential that a chemical space contains at least molecules (Lahana, 1999).
Applications
Screening
Creation of big in silico virtual libraries of compounds using Combinatorial chemistry techniques to increase a efficiency inside mining the chemical space.
Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR)
Calculation of Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship and Quantitative Structure Property Relationship values, used to predict a activity of compounds from either their structures. Therein context there exists as well the hard relationship to Chemometrics.
File formats
Inside silico representation of chemical structures, utilizing formats like a XML based Chemical Markup Language, or SMILES. These representations come typically utilized for storage inside big chemical databases. Understand besides Chemical file formats
Miscellaneous
Statistics
Data mining
Data analysis
Scientific Visualization
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