1st Edition

Drug Design A Conceptual Overview

By T. Durai Ananda Kumar Copyright 2022
486 Pages 115 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

486 Pages 115 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The newer research areas in pharmaceutical sciences, particularly molecular modeling and simulations, prompted a more efficient drug discovery process. Informatics integrated with pharmaceutical sciences (cheminformatics and bioinformatics) became an essential component of drug research. Drug informatics such as genomics and proteomics assists in the Rational Drug Design (RDD). This emerging... Read more
1. Drug Discovery Informatics  2. Receptors  3. Molecular Biology  4. Drug Discovery and Development  5. Quantitative – Structure Activity Relationship (QSAR)  6. Molecular Modeling  7. Virtual Screening  8. Molecular Docking  9. Sequence Analysis  10. Pairwise Sequence Alignment (PSA)  11. Molecular Evolution, Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) and Phylogenetic Analysis  12. Gene Prediction, Hidden Markov Model and Motif Identification  13. Structure Prediction 

Biography

T. Durai Ananda Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research, Karnataka, India.

'The author keeps a good balance between theory and practice, excelling in pedagogical strategies, which really distinguish this book among its contemporaries.'


Marc A Ilies, PhD, Temple University School of Pharmacy