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Chem(o)informatics

Posted October 29th, 2008 by Spicy

As a PhD student you start out by doing rotations, quarter-long research projects, in various Professor’s lab.  In my rotation I am attempting to learn all there is to know about Chem(o)informatics.  I write it that way because there is an apparent dispute as to what exactly to call this field of study (Cheminformatics versus Chemoinformatics).  As I do with many problems, I turned to Google for the answer. A quick search revealed that the term Cheminformatics is more prominent. “Ah ha!” I exclaimed.  For the all knowing Google could not be wrong and so it must be.  However, an itch in the back of my mind made me do a search using Google Scholar.  Alas, to my dismay, it showed the opposite.  In an attempt to break the tie and resolve this conflict I attempted another search in PubMed.  Surely that would settle things.  The results of my studies are below.

(Perhaps definatively, my spellcheck says there both wrong.)

Tags: cheminformatics, chemoinformatics, Science