This article is part of the supplement: 5th German Conference on Cheminformatics: 23. CIC-Workshop
Oral presentation
Representation and searching of biomolecules
Journal of Cheminformatics 2010, 2(Suppl 1):O4 doi:10.1186/1758-2946-2-S1-O4
Published: 4 May 2010First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Biomolecules present challenges to chemical information systems designed for small molecules. Their sizes, up to tens of thousands of atoms, overwhelm representation/storage/searching solutions built on explicit chemical representation of the structures. But biomolecules are largely made up of many repeats of a limited number of building-block molecules, a fact which has been used to provide a compressed representation for biomolecules using templates for the building blocks.