The document provides an overview of cheminformatics, detailing its definition, historical evolution, and various applications in drug discovery and molecular design. It highlights key concepts such as molecular descriptors, cheminformatics tasks, and high-throughput screening, along with the evolution of significant chemical databases. The paper emphasizes the importance of cheminformatics in modern chemical research, illustrating how it aids in the analysis and design of chemical compounds.

1. By
KAUSHAL KUMAR SAHU
Assistant Professor (Ad Hoc)
Department of Biotechnology
Govt. Digvijay Autonomous P. G. College
Raj-Nandgaon ( C. G. )

2. INTRODUCTION
THE NEED FOR CHEMOINFORMATICS
CHEMOINFORMATICS AND DRUG DISCOVERY
HISTORICAL EVOLUTION
BASIC CONCEPTS
Chemistry Space
Molecular Descriptors
High-Throughput Screening
The Similar-Structure, Similar-Property Principle
Graph theory and Chemoinformatics
CHEMOINFORMATICS TASKS
MOLECULAR REPRESENTATIONS
Topological Representations
Geometrical Representations
TYPES OF MOLECULAR DESCRIPTORS
IN SILICO DE NOVO MOLECULAR DESIGN
FREE CHEMISTRY DATABASE
FUTURE
CONCLUSION
REFERENCE
SYNOPSIS

3. INTRODUCTION & DEFINITION
G. Paris, 1998.
“Chemoinformatics is a generic term that encompasses the
design, creation, organization, management, retrieval, analysis,
dissemination, visualization, and use of chemical information.”
J. Gasteiger, 2004
“Chemoinformatics is the application of informatics methods to
solve chemical problems.”
F.K. Brown, 1998
“Chemoinformatics is the mixing of those information resources
to transform data into information and information into
knowledge for the intended purpose of making better decisions
faster in the area of drug lead identification and optimization.”
Varnek, 2007
“Chemoinformatics is a field dealing with molecular objects
(graphs, vectors) in multidimentional chemical space.”
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WHAT IS CHEMINFORMATICS?
Chemistry
Statistics
Informatics
Mathematics
Cheminformatics

5. Who & Why Uses Cheminformatics?
•Life sciences, biochemistry, drug industries use
cheminformatics.
20 years ago: 80% in lab – 20% in front of computer
Now: 20% in lab - 70% in front of computer
Examples:
• Organic chemistry – automated reaction planning,
Beilstein search
• Physical chemistry – modeling of structure
properties (boiling points)
• Inorganic chemistry – ligand bond interactions
• Analytical chemistry – structure elucidation of
small compounds
• Biochemistry – protein/small molecule interaction
networks
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6. HISTORY
 The first edition of Beilstein’s Handbuch der Organischen Chemie was published
in 1881 and contained two volumes, registering 1500 compounds, with more than
2000 pages.
 Chemical Abstracts have been published since 1907.
 Cambridge Structural Database, was developed to contain three-dimensional
crystal structures of conformations of compounds and it was developed in
1965.
 Gasteiger in 1975, the Journal of Chemical Documentation changed its name to
Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences.
 In 1997, the National Cancer Institute built and publicly distributed their database
with compounds a associated biological anti-tumor data.
 Chemical Informatics Letters, an open web access journal published since 2000,
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8. BASIC CONCEPT
 Chemistry Space: Chemistry space is the term given to the space
that contains all of the theoretically possible molecules and is therefore
theoretically infinite.
Chemical space
Drug like chemical space
Hits space
Drug
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9. BASIC CONCEPT
 Molecular Descriptors: "The molecular descriptor is the final result of a logic and
mathematical procedure which transforms chemical information encoded within a
symbolic representation of a molecule into a useful number or the result of some
standardized experiment.“
 Two main categories: experimental measurements, such as log P, molar refractivity,
dipole moment, polarizability, and, in general, physico-chemical properties, and
theoretical molecular descriptors, which are derived from a symbolic
representation of the molecule and can be further classified according to the different
types of molecular representation.
Basic requirements for optimal descriptors
 Structural interpretation
 Good correlation with at least one property
 Preferably discriminate among isomers
 Possible to apply to local structure
 Possible to generalize to "higher" descriptors
 Not be based on experimental properties
 Not be trivially related to other descriptors
 Should be possible to construct efficiently
 Should use familiar structural concepts
 Change gradually with gradual change in structures
 The correct size dependence, if related to the molecule size
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10. BASIC CONCEPT
High-Throughput Screening
 Rapid
 use well plates (96, 384, or 1536 wells)
 Two extremes are evident in many HTS programs:
diverse and focused screening libraries.
The Similar-Structure, Similar-Property Principle
 Much of chemoinformatics is essentially based on the fundamental
assertion that similar molecules will also tend to exhibit similar
properties; this is known as the similar-structure, similar-property
principle, often simply referred to as the similar property principle.
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11. MOLECULAR REPRESENTATIONS
Adjacency Matrix
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12. SMILES NOTATIONS
The original SMILES specification was developed by Arthur
Weininger and David Weininger in the late 1980s.
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13. Cheminformatics

14. Geometrical Representations
 Conformer
 2D & 3D Molecular Representations
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17. TYPES OF MOLECULAR DESCRIPTORS
 Vector Representations(Molecular Fingerprints)
Structure-Key Fingerprints Hash -Key Fingerprints
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18. Pharmacophore Models
The term pharmacophore was first used by Paul Ehrlich
(1854–1915) in 1909
 Structure-Based Pharmacophores.
 Ligand-Based Pharmacophores.
Molecular Scaffolds and Scaffold Hopping
 Used to describe the core structure of molecule
 Scaffold hopping (leapfrogging, lead-hopping, chemotype switching,
and scaffold searching)
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19. In silico de novo MOLECULAR DESIGN
 De Novo Design
 Virtual Combinatorial Synthesis
Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships
Molecular Docking
Docking consists of two components:
 Search algorithm – generation of plausible structures
 Scoring function – to identify which of the identified structures are of
most interest
Common programs for molecular docking:
 Dock
 Autodock
 FlexX
 ArgusLab
 GOLD (Genetic Optimization for Ligand Docking) 19
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20. FREE CHEMISTRY DATABASES
PUBCHEM
ZINC
EMOLECULES
CHEBI
NIST CHEMISTRY WEBBOOK
CHEMEXPER
DRUGBANK
CHEMBANK
IUPAC-NIST SOLUBILITY DATABASE
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FUTURE
The computer is used to analyze the interactions between the drug and
the receptor site and design molecules with an optimal fit. Once targets
are developed, libraries of compounds are screened for activity with one
or more relevant assays using High Throughput Screening. Hits are then
evaluated for binding, potency, selectivity, and functional activity.
Seeking to improve:
Potency
Absorption
 Distribution
 Metabolism
 Elimination

22. APPLICATIONS OF CHEMOINFORMATICS
1. Chemical Information
 Storage and retrieval of chemical structures and associated data to
manage the flood of data by the softwares are available for
drawing and databases.
 Dissemination of data on the internet
 Cross-linking of data to information
2. All fields of chemistry
 rediction of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of
compounds
3. Analytical Chemistry
 Chemical(s) of concern Chemical Specific data Structural analogue
Property analogue Biological or mechanistic analogue Data bases
ata mining Structure searchable Structure activity relationships 20
 Analysis of data from analytical chemistry to mak predictions on
the quality, origin, and age of the investigated objects
 Elucidation of the structure of a compound based on spectroscopic
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23. Chemoinformatics -A Textbook, Johann
Gasteiger and Thomas Engel, Wiley-VCH 2003
An Introduction to Chemoinformatics, Andrew
R. Leach, Valerie J. Gillet, Springer 2007
J. Polanski, University of Silesia, Katowice,
Poland(pdf)
http://www.mdpi.org
http://www.springer.com
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