Chemical graph generators

PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Jan 5;17(1):e1008504. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008504. eCollection 2021 Jan.

Abstract

Chemical graph generators are software packages to generate computer representations of chemical structures adhering to certain boundary conditions. Their development is a research topic of cheminformatics. Chemical graph generators are used in areas such as virtual library generation in drug design, in molecular design with specified properties, called inverse QSAR/QSPR, as well as in organic synthesis design, retrosynthesis or in systems for computer-assisted structure elucidation (CASE). CASE systems again have regained interest for the structure elucidation of unknowns in computational metabolomics, a current area of computational biology.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Cheminformatics / methods*
  • Computer Graphics
  • Metabolomics
  • Models, Molecular*
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Software*

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.