Cheminformatics is a significant application of information technology to help chemists for investigating new problems, organize, analyse, and understand scientific data in the development of novel compounds, materials and processes.

Why do we need cheminformatics?

Cheminformatics plays a vital role to maintain a large amount of chemical data. A reliable prediction of toxic effects of chemicals in living systems is highly desirable in domains such as cosmetics, drug design, food safety, and manufacturing chemical compounds.

What does a cheminformatics do?

Cheminformatics focuses on storing, indexing, searching, retrieving, and applying information about chemical compounds (e.g., physical properties, spectroscopic signatures, etc.)