The evolution that has taken place in medicinal chemistry practice as a result of
major advances in genomics and molecular biology arising from the Human Genome
Project has carried with it an extensive additional working vocabulary that has
become both integrated and essential terminology for the medicinal chemist. Some
of this augmented terminology has been adopted from the many related and
interlocked scientific disciplines with which the modern medicinal chemist must
be conversant, but many other terms have been introduced to define new concepts
and ideas as they have arisen. In this supplementary Glossary, we have attempted
to collate and define many of the additional terms that are now considered to be
essential components of the medicinal chemist’s expanded repertoire.
