All, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new eBook called Introducing Cheminformatics. The eBook is derived from learning materials used at Indiana University, and gives an intensive introduction to cheminformatics, including the history of the field, representing 2D and 3D chemical structures on computer, storing and using databases of chemical and related biological information, handling chemical information on the web and in the scholarly literature, and giving an overview of some advanced topics such as use of cheminformatics in chemistry libraries, clustering and diversity, QSAR and predictive modeling, 3D alignment and docking, and software toolkits cheminformatics software. The eBook is provided in PDF format, and is split into 12 lessons, each focusing on a particular area of cheminformatics. The first six are focused on the foundational aspects of the field, such as representing 2D structures, and the remaining six cover more advanced applications in the field. Each lesson details learning objectives and concludes with a set of questions that are designed to be thought provoking, with responses and answers in a final chapter. The text is hyperlinked to current resources on the web, with references to pertinent external articles where appropriate.
The eBook is designed for chemistry, library science and other students needing an introduction to the field, and also would be suitable for professional life science or computing practitioners who need a rapid, flexible introduction to this field. The eBook is available on LuLu for $29 at http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/introducing-cheminformatics/18934281 (a preview is also available at the site). Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested David ____________________________________________________ Dr. David J. Wild, [email protected], http://djwild.info Assistant Professor of Informatics & Computing Director, Cheminformatics & Chemogenomics Research Group Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing 150 S. Woodlawn Rm 330B, Bloomington, IN 47405 Tel. +1 812 856 1848 _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
