**4. Applications in food chemistry**

Food chemical data sets can be manipulated and analysed also by computational resources similar with those for drugs and nutraceuticals. The interest in this area is growing because of the food-related industrial challenges. Thus, an emerging field of research has arisen: foodinformatics [23]. In silico quantitative approaches are used to assess genotoxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives (flavours, colourants, contaminants, etc.) or cosmetic ingredients [24–26], in the attempts of safety evaluation for the human health. All these computational approaches must be verified by in vitro methods.

This section is a collection of advanced studies focusing on topics of interest in the context of chemoinformatics applications in drug discovery and design of new molecules.
