cheminformaticsn.
/ˌkɛmɪnfəˈmatɪks/, U.S. /ˌkɛmˌɪnfərˈmædɪks/ The branch of chemistry concerned with the application of the techniques and data retrieval methods made possible by computer science to chemical research, esp. in the design of new drugs.
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cheminformatics1996
1996 Chem. Design Automation News 11 10 He previously was senior manager of the Glaxo Wellcome Research Institute, Chemoinformatics Group, which he founded and directed for two years.
2000 T. K. Sawyer in J. M. Walker & R. Rapley Molecular Biol. & Biotechnol. (ed. 4) viii. 260 Virtual screening of combinatorial libraries using both computational chemistry and cheminformatics tools.
2003 Science 3 Oct. 64/1 A publicly accessible cheminformatics database to be housed at NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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