Dear reader,
Welcome to cheminformatics.co.uk !
cheminformatics.co.uk is a website written by myself, Dr Edmund Duesbury, as a hub for chemoinformatics tools, as well as bridging gaps between chemistry and data science. Whilst data science and cheminformatics are arguably different disciplines, as far as I see it, cheminformatics is basically data science but with a more nuanced set of data.
Originally I was in the discipline of "chemoinformatics" (or more generally, chemistry and "data science"), having a 3 year tenure in pharmaceuticals after finishing a PhD with Professor Peter Willett and Doctor John Holliday at the University of Sheffield. However, upon seeing that many techniques between data science and chemoinformatics actually overlap a lot, I have witnessed the barriers become more blurred between the two disciplines, especially with recent advances in artificial intelligence.
I left pharmaceuticals into the wider world of data, and have realised that the realms of cheminformatics and data science are generally separated only by terminology, marketing and toolsets (which otherwise are the same things but with different names). Certainly I found that there was more similarity between Fintech and Utilities, than between either of those two and pharmaceuticals. I aim to detail some of these in later posts.
My GitHub can be found here - https://github.com/eduece99 , and feel free to check my LinkedIn page.
Yours,
Edmund