Chemoinformatics

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The term Chemoinformatics was given by F.K. Brown(1998).

Chemoinformatics is the application of informatics tools to solve chemistry related problems.However some users use the term Cheminformatics in place of Chemoinformatics.The main application of chemoinformatics is in the field of Drug Discovery.

[edit] File Format

For representation of Chemical compunds or structure there are various format used.

1.Smile Format

2.Mol Format

3.SDF Format

[edit] Language

Like HTML ,XML Chemoinformatics used a special language Design for the Chemistry Purpose is known as Chemical Markup Language(C.M.L).












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