Reactant A and B reacts to form the products C and D. The chances are that you have encountered this type of chemical reaction in your school days. While on paper they may seem as simple as drawing a bunch of arrows, in the real world, even the simplest of those reactions, takes a long time, money, and resources to formulate. The reaction time can vary from the order of seconds to the order of months.| ChemicBook
Unless you’re living under a rock, you probably have heard about ChatGPT by now. The Internet has been buzzing with new technologies for the past few months. Tools that would have taken months, possibly years, to build are being developed just over a weekend of hacking. I truly believe that we’re living in one of the most exciting times in history.| ChemicBook
Welcome to the second blog in the Cheminformatics for Beginners series. In the last blog, we saw a quick introduction to the SMILES notation. This post will introduce you to the mol2 format in cheminformatics. Introduction One major setback from the SMILES notation was that it could not provide the positions of each atom in space, typically with X, Y, and Z cartesian coordinates. Mol2 file solves this problem. It is a plain text tabular format that represents a single or multiple chemical com...| ChemicBook