Chemistry and pharma: weekly roundup

How items are tagged

An item belongs to Chemistry and pharma when its title or summary names one of these terms as a whole word, in any case and with an optional final “s”: pharma, pharmaceutical, drug discovery, drug design, drug development, drug candidate, quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, chemistry, chemical industry, chemical simulation, chemical reaction, catalyst, catalysis, molecular simulation, molecular dynamics, molecular docking, protein folding, biochemistry, materials discovery, materials design, battery materials.

These phrases use a term in another sense and are taken out of the text first: chemical potential, chemical vapour deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chemical-mechanical polishing.

Rule set sector-rules-2026-10-29. The sector stands for the facet sector-chemistry of the portal’s technology taxonomy and the sector “Pharma, chemistry and materials” of the adoption directory. Keyword rules can miss an item or tag one loosely; the terms shown with each item let you judge.

4 documented use cases in this sector