Answers.Body: <p>There are four terms to consider, all are computational</p>
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  <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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Title: Difference between bioinformatics and cheminformatics
ThreadText: # Difference between bioinformatics and cheminformatics
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-10-07)
  
  Anyone can answer, and should be in simple way
  
  **Tags:** genomics, cheminformatics
  
  > **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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