GoForth
EuroMUG'99 -- 28-29 October 1999 -- Cambridge, UK
Jeremy Yang
The Bigness of Chemical Space
Anthony Nicholls estimates 10
200
small organic druglike molecules. Ref:
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to Chemical Space"
by Anthony Nicholls, OpenEye Scientific Software, Inc.
Curve-fitting GoForth results, we have
N ~ 10
C-1
Where C = maximum number of carbons
By allowing other elements, the combinatorial possibilities will be exponentially increased. Thus, it is at least reasonable to say we roughly agree with Anthony's number (order-of- order-of-magnitude).
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