Introduction To Cheminformatics And Medicinal Chemistry

What you'll learn
Units to describe biological activity
An overview of drug discovery
An introduction to cheminformatics
The SMILES representation of chemical structures
Small molecule databases
Physical chemical features that may influence oral bioavailability of drugs
Softwares to analyze physical chemical features of compounds
Strategies to change the structure of bioactive compounds
Requirements
Very basic knowledge of chemistry and biology
Description
Hi! In this course, I'm going to introduce some concepts and tools of Medicinal Chemistry and Cheminformatics! Cheminformatics can be understood as an interdisciplinary field. It encompasses the theoretical knowledge of chemistry and the application of informatics. This area is applied in several fields, such as drug development, environmental science, and material science. In this course, we are going to focus on the part of cheminformatics applied to drug discovery. In this introductory course, you'll gain knowledge of chemical databases, drawing of molecular structures, and softwares to analyze physicochemical and structural features of molecules to predict their pharmacokinetic properties, bioactivity, or safety profile.Medicinal chemistry, on the other hand, is an area where chemistry and pharmacology intersect, and it is directly involved in the process of rational drug development. Its main difference from the traditional drug discovery process is the emphasis on the chemical properties and structure of the chemical compounds investigated to generate possible insights into their biological activities. Medicinal...

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