Exploring the Role of Chemoinformatics in Accelerating Drug Discovery: A Computational Approach.

Cheminformatics and its role in drug discovery is expected to be the privileged approach in handling large number of chemical datasets. This approach contributes toward the pharmaceutical development and assessment of chemical compounds at a faster rate efficiently. Additionally, as technological advancement impacts research, cheminformatics is being used more and more in the field of health science. This chapter describes the concepts of cheminformatics along with its involvement in drug discovery with a case study.