Glossary of Terms Used in Medicinal Chemistry Part II

Corresponding author: Derek Buckle

The evolution that has taken place in Medicinal Chemistry practice as a result of major advances in genomics and molecular biology arising from the Human Genome Project has carried with it an extensive additional working vocabulary that has become both integrated and essential terminology for the medicinal chemist. Some of this augmented terminology has been adopted from the many related and interlocked scientific disciplines with which the modern medicinal chemist must be conversant, but many other terms have been introduced to define new concepts and ideas as they have arisen. In this supplementary Glossary we have attempted to collate and define many of the additional terms that are now considered to be essential components of the medicinal chemist�s expanded repertoire

To avoid a repetition of terms included in the original Glossary we have chosen to keep this supplement as a separate document and to identify it by the designation Part II. By inference, therefore, the earlier Glossary necessarily becomes Part I. Pure Appl. Chem., 70, 1129-1143 (1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac199870051129 also available at http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/medchem/