Comment you do your job and I'll do mine. (Score 1) 58
Would you ask the person running your local mailserver to look at two small molecules and guess which one would be a better inhibitor of the kinase du jour?
Having a basic understanding of how the nmr works is sufficient for what I do on a day-to-day basis. Being able to build one on my own from scratch (there are organic chemists who have done their doctorate doing just this) is not going to help me in drug discovery.