"The new discipline of chemoinformatics covers the application of computer-assisted methods to chemical problems such as information storage and retrieval, the prediction of physical, chemical or biological properties of compounds, spectra simulation, structure elucidation, reaction modeling, synthesis planning and drug design. ... this four-volume Handbook contains in-depth contributions from top authors from around the world, with the content organized into chapters dealing with the representation of molecular structures and reactions, data types and databases/data sources, search methods, methods for data analysis as well as applications"--Back cover.