Molecules (Mar 2011)

Challenges and Perspectives of Chemical Biology, a Successful Multidisciplinary Field of Natural Sciences

  • Vladimir V. Kouznetsov,
  • Fernando A. Rojas-Ruiz,
  • Leonor Y. Vargas-Méndez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules16032672
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 3
pp. 2672 – 2687

Abstract

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Objects, goals, and main methods as well as perspectives of chemical biology are discussed. This review is focused on the fundamental aspects of this emerging field of life sciences: chemical space, the small molecule library and chemical sensibilization (small molecule microassays).

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