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Abstract
Chemistry has diversified from a basic understanding of the elements to studying millions of highly diverse molecules and materials, which together are conceptualized as the chemical space. A map of this chemical space where distances represent similarities between compounds can represent the mutual relationships between different subfields of chemistry and help the discipline to be viewed and understood globally.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Cheminformatics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research in all aspects of cheminformatics and molecular modelling.
Coverage includes, but is not limited to:
chemical information systems, software and databases, and molecular modelling,
chemical structure representations and their use in structure, substructure, and similarity searching of chemical substance and chemical reaction databases,
computer and molecular graphics, computer-aided molecular design, expert systems, QSAR, and data mining techniques.