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Introduction to Cheminformatics and medicinal chemistry
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Introduction to Cheminformatics and medicinal chemistry

Understand the underlying chemistry of drug development and use free softwares to analyze molecules
Created byGuilherme Matos Passarini, phD
Last updated 7/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Units to describe biological activity
  • An overview of drug discovery
  • An introduction to cheminformatics
  • The SMILES representation of chemical structures
  • Small molecule databases
  • Physical chemical features that may influence oral bioavailability of drugs
  • Softwares to analyze physical chemical features of compounds
  • Strategies to change the structure of bioactive compounds

Course content

6 sections • 32 lectures • 2h 52m total length

  • Course overview and introduction2:25

    The goal of this lecture is to present the general structure of the course

  • Cheminformatics and medicinal chemistry9:49

    The goal of this lecture is to introduce the concept of Cheminformatics and Medicinal Chemistry

  • Units of biological activity8:59

    The goal of this lecture is to present the concept behind the units of biological activity used in experiments

  • The representation of molecular structures as SMILES6:50

    The goal of this lecture is to present the concept of SMILES in chemistry and cheminformatics

Requirements

  • Very basic knowledge of chemistry and biology

Description

Hi! In this course, I'm going to introduce some concepts and tools of Medicinal Chemistry and Cheminformatics!


Cheminformatics can be understood as an interdisciplinary field. It encompasses the theoretical knowledge of chemistry and the application of informatics. This area is applied in several fields, such as drug development, environmental science, and material science. In this course, we are going to focus on the part of cheminformatics applied to drug discovery. In this introductory course, you'll gain knowledge of chemical databases, drawing of molecular structures, and softwares to analyze physicochemical and structural features of molecules to predict their pharmacokinetic properties, bioactivity, or safety profile.

Medicinal chemistry, on the other hand, is an area where chemistry and pharmacology intersect, and it is directly involved in the process of rational drug development. Its main difference from the traditional drug discovery process is the emphasis on the chemical properties and structure of the chemical compounds investigated to generate possible insights into their biological activities. Medicinal chemistry, therefore, provides the rationale for choosing molecules, deducing their possible pharmacokinetic properties, such as plasma concentration, or biological activity, based on their functional groups, molecular weight, cLogP, etc.


You may like this course if you are interested in...


  1. Understanding how molecules can be represented in a linear format file

  2. Knowing how to use chemical databases

  3. Knowing about physicochemical features that may help to predict oral availability of drug candidates

  4. Using free softwares to analyze the structure of molecules to predict physicochemical features

  5. Using free softwares to analyze the structure of molecules to predict biological activity

  6. Knowing how proteins are relevant to the process of drug discovery

  7. Contributing to the field of biochemistry and protein design by playing Foldit


Who this course is for:

  • Students of biology
  • Students of chemistry
  • Students of pharmacy
  • Students of biotechnology
  • Professionals of the above areas
  • Professionals or students of related areas

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