Chemical space is really big (2014)
What makes 1 billion rows a large search space?<p>What makes 150 billion rows incomprehensibly large?<p>With a molecular weight of 500 we're talking something on the order of terabytes of data (for 1b molecules)?<p>It certainly sounds like a tractable amount of data.<p>What computer problems are stopping us from generating a compound, computationally testing it for stability, and adding it to the list and then searching?