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Chemical ideograms and molecular computer graphics

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Molecular computer graphics (MCG) has become the indispensable complement of experimental chemical and biological tools and, in a way, will shape the evolution of these fields. This accelerated and popularized evolution takes root in the visual, even scenic, grasping of fundamental chemical concepts, perceived as veritable ideograms, which condense a vast amount of information with a few two- or threedimensional graphic symbols. With MCG one can carry out real computerized syntheses of chemical images. MCG is also an ideal tool through which to visualize the changes of a system as a function of time. This review article describes the potentials and advantages of structural MCG for visualizing the basic steps of important modelization concepts, particularly for handling on-line structures in information networks and in computer-assisted drug design (CADD) applications.

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  1. Institute of Topology and System Dynamics associé au CNRS LA34, University Paris 7, 75005, Paris, France

    J. E. Dubois & D. Laurent

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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Dubois, J.E., Laurent, D. & Weber, J. Chemical ideograms and molecular computer graphics. The Visual Computer 1, 49–63 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01901269

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