[BiO BB] New Introductory Cheminformatics eBook available

[David Wild]

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
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Dr. David J. Wild, djwild at indiana.edu, 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