Basic Cheminformatics Course for First-Year Chemistry Students

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  • Author(s): Anastasiya S. Kadtsyna (ORCID Anastasiya S. Kadtsyna (ORCID 0000-0002-4149-484X); Alexey S. Chubarov (ORCID Alexey S. Chubarov (ORCID 0000-0002-5708-7595); Evgeniy D. Kadtsyn
  • Language:
    English
  • Source:
    Journal of Chemical Education. 2022 99(8):2932-2942.
  • Publication Date:
    2022
  • Document Type:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Descriptive
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Division of Chemical Education, Inc. and ACS Publications Division of the American Chemical Society. 1155 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 800-227-5558; Tel: 202-872-4600; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://pubs.acs.org/jchemeduc
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      11
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Chemistry; Undergraduate Students; Science Instruction; Course Descriptions; Databases; Information Systems; Computer Software; Search Engines; Graphs; Writing Instruction; Scientific Literacy; Research Reports; Information Science Education; Online Courses; In Person Learning; Teaching Methods; COVID-19; Pandemics; Teacher Attitudes; College Faculty; State Universities; Foreign Countries
    • Subject Terms:
      Russia
    • Accession Number:
      10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00175
    • ISSN:
      0021-9584
      1938-1328
    • Abstract:
      Cheminformatics is a widely used interdisciplinary field that is important for many chemistry areas. Cheminformatics skills are necessary for dealing with a large amount of chemical information and are considered essential for various tasks such as data analysis, visualization, storage, etc. This paper presents the basic cheminformatics chemistry semester-length course for first-year chemistry students, organized at the Novosibirsk State University. Students in the course learn literature and structural databases, search engines, chemical structure drawing and representation, graphing software, text formatting, scientific writing, and report representation. The course could be replicated as an entire course in chemical informatics or could be used as separate modules in other courses. We describe the face-to-face course and the adaptation to an online teaching model during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. The students' and lecturers' feedback about the course program and results are also presented. We hope that this work can assist faculty members in teaching cheminformatics.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2024
    • Accession Number:
      EJ1441704