<p>There are four terms to consider, all are computational</p>
<ul>
<li>cheminformatics — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Big data</a> to explore relationship between small molecules (e.g. enumeration and machine learning stuff)</li>
<li>computational chemistry (&quot;compchem&quot;) - thermodynamics-based methods to explore small molecules (e.g. docking)</li>
<li>bioinformatics — big data primarily for exploring -omics data (genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics)</li>
<li>computational biochemistry - thermodynamics-based methods to study structure of protein</li>
</ul>

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Difference between bioinformatics and cheminformatics
# Difference between bioinformatics and cheminformatics

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-10-07)

Anyone can answer, and should be in simple way

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: A reminder to not downvote newbies, but inform them why their Q is problematic. In this case it's a LMGTFY situation w/ no info of what may be the source of confusion and the body is not informative.  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-10-07. Score: 1

There are four terms to consider, all are computational

* cheminformatics — [Big data](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data) to explore relationship between small molecules (e.g. enumeration and machine learning stuff)
* computational chemistry ("compchem") - thermodynamics-based methods to explore small molecules (e.g. docking)
* bioinformatics — big data primarily for exploring -omics data (genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics)
* computational biochemistry - thermodynamics-based methods to study structure of protein


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