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Software for classifying teratogens

Steven Zikopoulos szikopou at superior.carleton.ca
Thu Mar 4 16:50:00 EST 1993


In <C3DFCI.9C1 at athena.cs.uga.edu> mjuric at aisun1.ai.uga.edu (Mark Juric [MSAI]) writes:

>   I need some help classifying some compounds, and I was wondering if there
>is anyone who could point me in the direction of software or texts for
>this task.  I could also use some firm definitions for the following terms:
>	a) Aromatic heterocycles
>	b) Carboaromatic
>	c) Aliphatic (with rings)
>	d) Alicyclic
>	e) Acyclic
>I am trying to classify a list of compounds according to these catagories.
>If anyone has any suggestions for classifying and differentiating teratogenic 
>and non-teratogenic compounds according to this or any other scheme, all help
>would be appreciated.
>  I am not a chemist or a biologist, so if this is a simple problem, please
>excuse my ignorance...


>===                                                                         ===
>@  Mark Juric                                A.I. Programs                    @
>@  mjuric at ai.uga.edu                       University of Georgia              @
>@                                          Athens, Georgia 30602              @
A good place to start is an introductory Organic Chemistry and
Bio-Chem. text book. 

Steve Zikopoulos




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