Cheminformatics-Aninsilico pharmacoinformatics approach in Drug Discovery

Cheminformatics is a sub discipline of computer molecular science that deals with the information retrieval from chemical databases, three-dimensional molecular and crystal structure modeling, chemical reaction pathway prediction, molecular functional groups and docking sites [1].Cheminformatics originally emerged as a vehicle to help in drug discovery and development process. But now it has numerous application in numerous disciplines such as life sciences, chemistry, biochemistry, structural biology etc [2].This area of research mainly deals with small molecules, whereas bioinformatics covers genes, proteins, and other larger chemical compounds [3]. However both the disciplines are inter-related and quiet novel. Since Cheminformatics is a new field therefore still in its initial stages of development.


Introduction
Cheminformatics is a sub discipline of computer molecular science that deals with the information retrieval from chemical databases, three-dimensional molecular and crystal structure modeling, chemical reaction pathway prediction, molecular functional groups and docking sites [1].Cheminformatics originally emerged as a vehicle to help in drug discovery and development process.But now it has numerous application in numerous disciplines such as life sciences, chemistry, biochemistry, structural biology etc [2].This area of research mainly deals with small molecules, whereas bioinformatics covers genes, proteins, and other larger chemical compounds [3].However both the disciplines are inter-related and quiet novel.Since Cheminformatics is a new field therefore still in its initial stages of development.
Following are some Cheminformatics tools mentioned below that aids in drug delivery and in its related developmental processes [4].

Cheminformatics Tools in Drug Discovery
The most prominent use of Cheminformatics is in drug discovery.The virtual libraries help predict the best substrate for a certain reaction leading to the wet lab experiments of drug discovery process.Before cheminformatics, it took decades for a drug to hit the market.But now with the help of Cheminformatics, this time period has been reduced immensely.Most of the unlikely candidates for a reaction are ruled out in the virtual screening process and then with the help of high throughput screening, a lot of time and manpower is saved [6].

Symyx Draw
It is a free chemical structure drawing program used to draw virtual diagrams of chemical substances.It uses its personal file format as well as the usual chemical file formats like MDL molfile, TGX file etc [7].One can draw chemical structures and reactions, manually, an also using IUPAC names.It also provides the IUPAC names of the compounds that we have drawn.In addition to this, it allows search and retrieval through chemical databases [8].

ChemDraws
It is a structure drawing tool that allows one to create 3-D chemical structures and reactions with complete chains, rings, functional groups and bonds.It even allows one to find out the structures properties using the tool [9].Citation: Nida TK (2017) Cheminformatics-Aninsilico pharmacoinformatics approach in Drug Discovery.Nanosci Technol 4(2): 1-2.

Cheminformatics-Aninsilico pharmacoinformatics approach in Drug Discovery
Copyright: © 2017 Nida TK ChemReader It is structure recognition software which retrieves chemical structure diagrams from digital pictures and converts them into computer readable chemical file formats.This information can then be used to search through chemical databases [10].

JME Molecule Editor
It is free java script software that allows users to draw and edit molecular diagrams along with creating substructure queries (queries regarding the molecular structures and its substructures).It can convert structures into numerous file formats [11].

Wendi
Wendi is a web engine for nonobvious drug information.A type of web based integrative data mining tool that is used to find associations between a query compound and scholarly publications, biological properties, genes and diseases that are usually ambiguous using multiple information sources [12].

ChemMine Tool
It is a tool that works online for analysis of small molecule and provides an interface between Cheminformatics and data mining tools for different analytical studies in chemical genomics and drug discovery [13].

CML
CML is chemical markup language, a combination of text and non textual information of chemical structure on the internet [14].

PubChem
It is a database for small molecules and their experimental biological activity.It combines and provides search, retrieval, visualization, analysis access tools [15].

PLSR
PLSR or Partial Least Squares Regression is a chemmetrics tool which relates and works on two matrixes on the basis of some predesigned models, and analyses data in the existence of many nonsensical and even incomplete variables [16].

Open Babel
It is a chemical format converting software that converts structures into different chemical formats [17].

Conclusion
Recognition and assessment of morphological and functional interactions of chemical compounds and biological molecules is one of the most important requirements for medical research which is made easier with the advent of Cheminformatics.A developing field which is progressing rapidly in the biochemical world.