|  |  | Introduction to Pharmaceutical BioinformaticsPublisher: Oakleaf Academic Publishing House. Year published: 2018,third revised edition. ISBN 978-91-979403-1-1. 540 pages.
 Order book here Contents1. Introduction
 2. Background
 Drugs and their origins
 The modern pharmaceutical industry
 Sciences dealing with drugs
 Molecular basis of drug actions
 The drug in the living organism
 Cheminformatics
 Bioinformatics
 Open and closed source software
 
 3. Drug discovery and development
 The drug discovery phase
 Clinical trials
 Cheminformatics and molecular modeling
 Open source software for drug design
 
 4. Bioinformatics, drugs and omics
 Genome sequencing
 Genotyping
 Polymorphisms of drug metabolism
 Polymorphisms of drug targets
 Polymorphisms and adverse drug effects
 Transcriptomics
 Proteomics
 Metabolomics
 
 5. Representing molecules
 Chemical graph
 Connection matrices
 Connection tables
 Line notation systems
 File formats
 Substructure and query representation
 
 6. Representation of 3D structures
 Coordinate systems
 Geometry optimization
 Conformers
 Comparing geometries
 
 7. Molecular descriptors
 Vectorial representations
 Molecular descriptors
 Structural keys
 Molecular fingerprints
 Grid approaches
 Information content
 
 8. Sequence analysis
 Introduction to sequence analysis
 Representation of sequences
 Sequence alignments
 Phylogenetics
 Next-Generation Sequencing
 
 9. Macromolecular descriptors
 Building blocks
 Alignment-based descriptions
 Alignment-independent approaches
 3D based methods
 
 10. Design of experiments
 Principles of experimental design
 Step-by-step design of experiments
 Common experimental designs
 Statistical molecular design
 
 11. Data analysis
 Introduction to data analysis
 Nomenclature and notation
 Models
 Supervised learning
 Unsupervised learning
 
 12. Databases
 Introduction to databases
 Nucleotide databases
 Protein databases
 Chemistry databases
 Interaction databases
 Pathway databases
 Drug target databases
 Bibliographic databases
 Data integration
 
 13. QSAR
 Activities studied in QSAR and QSPR
 History of QSAR
 QSAR today
 QSAR in industry and society
 Future perspective for QSAR
 
 14. Proteochemometrics
 Introduction to proteochemometrics
 Cross-terms in proteochemometrics
 The interaction space
 Statistical validation of PCM models
 Proof of concept for PCM
 Examples of PCM use
 Current status of PCM
 Future prospectives for PCM
 
 15. Semantic web
 Open Semantic Web Standards
 File formats
 Ontologies
 Domain Ontologies
 The SPARQL Query Language
 Linked open data
 Wikidata
 Limitations
 Conclusion
 
 Appendices
 
 A. Basic probability theory
 Introduction
 A short history of probability theory
 Some fundamental definitions
 Probabilities
 Random variables
 Important concepts
 
 B. Basic matrix algebra
 Introduction
 Matrix multiplication
 Operations and properties
 
 Index
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