45090 - Chemoinformatics

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Assimo Maris
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: CHIM/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Chemistry (cod. 8029)

Learning outcomes

After completing this course the student:
-knowshow to represent 2D and 3D molecular structures
- uses of screening methods - know the concept of pharmacophore and how to use it indrug-design
- is able apply the QSAR and QPAR methods to simple problems, and to the design of new molecules with desired physicochemical properties.

Course contents

2D molecular structures: the search for structure and substructure, and screening methods.
3D molecular structures: conformational analysis and research, concept of pharmacophore and its usein drug design.
Molecular descriptors and methods for similarity searching.
QSAR (Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship) methods and use the model for the drug-design.

Readings/Bibliography

A.R. Leach, V.J. Gillet, An introduction to Chemoinformatics, Springer

A.R. Leach, Molecular modelling: principles and application, Prentice Hall

Teaching methods

Lectures and laboratory

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Links to further information

http://assimo.maris@unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Assimo Maris