Molecular topology - Applying graph theory to health science
- Series
- School of Mathematics Colloquium
- Time
- Thursday, February 19, 2009 - 11:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 269
- Speaker
- Amigo Garcia – Miguel Hernández University, Spain
Molecular topology is an application of graph theory to fields like chemistry, biology and pharmacology, in which the molecular structure matters. Its scope is the topological characterization of molecules by means of numerical invariants, called topological indices, which are the main ingredient of the molecular topological models. These models have been instrumental in the discovery of new applications of naturally occurring molecules, as well as in the design of synthetic molecules with specific chemical, biological or pharmacological properties. The talk will focus on pharmacological applications.