Synopsis This course introduces the application of computer methods in chemistry. Topics discussed include computer representation of chemical structures, databases in chemistry, molecular modeling, pattern recognition, optimization, regression analysis, multivariate calibration, artificial intelligence and QSAR. Applications of these methods in data analysis, structural searching, prediction of molecular properties and drug design are discussed.
Introduction Overview of computer, operating system and programming languages. Introduction to chemometric and cheminformatic methods and applications in solving chemical problems.
Pattern Recognition Supervised and unsupervised methods, Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), K-nearest neighbors (KNN), Principal Components analysis (PCA) and Hierarchical Clustering.
QSAR Quantitative structure activity/property relationships, applications in predicting biological activities and physicochemical properties, drug design.