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This book was designed for a Special Topics course Chemistry 4399/5399: Classical cheminformatics evolved out of the pharmaceutical industries, in silico medicinal chemistry, the ability of computational software to predict chemical properties and the needs to manage large chemical data sets. As the amount of data evolved new forms of scientific discovery in line with Microsoft Research's Fourth Paradigm of eScience evolved, and today, cognitive scientists could state that cheminformatics is changing the fundamental cognitive artifacts used to represent, manipulate and communicate chemical information. The world of big data is here, and the focus this particular cheminformatics course has taken deals with providing students an understanding of the nature of digital chemical data, and how to connect the workflow of practicing chemists to the infrastructure of online chemical data repositories.