Chemoinformatics-applications in food chemistry

Adv Food Nutr Res. 2009:58:33-56. doi: 10.1016/S1043-4526(09)58002-3.

Abstract

The aim of the present chapter is to present the current research and potential applications of chemoinformatics tools in food chemistry. First, the importance and variety of molecular descriptors and physicochemical properties is delineated, and then a survey and chemical space analysis of representative databases with emphasis on food-related ones is presented. A brief description of methods commonly used in molecular design, followed by examples in food chemistry are presented, such methods include similarity searching, pharmacophore modeling, quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR), and molecular docking. The relatedness to virtual screening is emphasized and the perspectives from this field are presented at the end.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chemistry, Agricultural / methods*
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Computational Biology / trends
  • Databases, Factual
  • Drug Discovery / methods
  • Food Analysis / methods*
  • Food Technology / methods*
  • Food Technology / trends
  • Humans
  • Models, Chemical
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship