Introduction
Computer-aided drug design and in silico screening have
contributed to the discovery of several compounds that have either
reached the market or entered clinical trials. In silico
Lead Discovery is a compilation of the efforts of several
experts on bioinformatics and drug design in developing the latest
advances of in silico approaches for lead discovery. It contains
an overview of structure-based, ligand-based methods and current
fragment-based methods as well as examples for successful applications
of such methods in discovering new hit/lead molecules for important
therapeutic targets. Treatment of receptor flexibility - which is
one of the most important challenges for in silico screening today
– has also been highlighted in the eBook. Biomedical scientists,
biologists and chemists can find valuable information here that
could help them to initiate or to complete chemical biology projects
with the goal of designing new hit-to-lead molecules or chemical
probes for chemogenomics projects..
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