# Some background on me
I'm James and I work in [[cheminformatics ]]and [[computational drug discovery]]. I have put this site together mostly as a record for myself, what I have been doing, a way to track ideas and things I have learnt over time. Think of it as a personal wiki of sorts. This can be everything from molecular line-notations to protein de novo design and beyond. You'll find pages in a variety of different levels of completeness as I am usually working on different projects throughout the year. I also constantly tweak and change old pages as I come up with new ideas or links to newer content. I usually update some part of the site daily often. If you want to find what I am working on right now feel to [[What Am I Working On ?|check it out]].
## Why do I work in Computational Drug Discovery ?
I am really interested in finding medicines which can have a positive impact on patients with diseases. Computational Drug Discovery is really all about how to use computer to expedite the [[drug discovery process]] and lower [[attrition rates]]. In particular I am interested in creating novel tools and techniques which can have an impact in rare, neglected, and tropical diseases.
From a practical perspective, this means developing computational tools to tackle various tasks that, if not properly managed, can slow down research or increase the incidence of false positives within pre-clinical research.
## Why did you choose 1060.fyi ?
10$^{60}$ is the often quoted value for the total number of dug like molecules that are possible in the chemical space. FYI is an acronym for "For Your Information".
## Latest edited pages
- [[Some notes on Data Lakes]]
- [[Reservoir Computing for Cheminformatics Applications]]
- [[What Am I Working On ?]]
- [[Exploration of Chemical Space Networks]]
- [[Simulated Annealing - Building a Test Harness]]
- [[Simulated Annealing - Early Stopping and Tuning]]
- [[Reaction Informatics - Reaction Datasets]]
- [[Simulated Annealing - Optimising Bit Vectors]]
- [[Reaction Informatics - Reaction Classes v. Reaction Examples]]
- [[An Analysis of a Never-Ending Reading List - Data Wrangling]]