化学，分子生物学和生物物理学的最新进展为我们提供了巨大的机遇，既可以增进我们对分子系统的了解，也可以解决医学问题。化学家正在解决生物化学，药理学，细胞生物学，结构生物学和通过设计和构建小分子作为光谱探针，功能类似物以及诊断和治疗药物来实现医学研究。反过来，分子生物学，仿生学和遗传学的方法也提供了解决化学问题的方法和解决方案，包括通过诱变来探测酶促反应的机制，通过生产大量用于光谱学和生物物理研究的纯蛋白质以及方便地产生结构多样性。通过创建基于计算机的小分子和大分子模型，然后可以测量其相互作用能和动力学，计算
Recent advances in chemistry, molecular biology, and biophysics are presenting us with spectacular opportunities both to increase our understanding of biological systems at the molecular level and to attack medical problems.Chemists are addressing problems in biochemistry, pharmacology, cell biology, structural biology, and medicine by designing and constructing small molecules as spectroscopic probes, functional analogues, and diagnostic and therapeutic agents. In turn, the methods of molecular biology, biomimetics and genetics are providing approaches and solutions to chemical problems, by mutagenesis to probe the mechanisms of enzymatic reactions, by production of large quantities of pure proteins for spectroscopic and biophysical studies, and by convenient generation of structural diversity. The application of computational methods to complex biological systems is having a major impact on the way chemical tools are being used in biology, through the creation of computer-based models of small molecules and macromolecules whose interaction energies and dynamics can then be measured.