Databases and Cheminformatics Fundamentals

The corse describes the structure and use of some chemical databases, principally referring to organic chemistry; in addition, it considers the description of the fundamental aspects of chemical models applied to: organic reactivity, organic synthesis, structure-activity relationships. Besides, it will give some hints to the structure of a computational program.

The student will achieve the competence of using a database and to get data in agreement with her/his research. She/he will be able to rationalize and evaluate the results of a modelling program and to understand its basics from its goal description and the structure of its operations.