In Silico Drug Discovery and Design Theory, Methods, Challenges, and Applications

The Physical Basis of Ligand Binding
Thomas Simonson
Force-Field Representation of Biomolecular Systems
Meagan C. Small and Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr.
Library Design, Chemical Space, and Drug Likeness
Hugo O. Villar
Ligand-Based Drug Discovery and Design
Álvaro Cortés-Cabrera, Pedro A. Sánchez Murcia, Antonio Morreale, and Federico Gago
Pharmacophore Modeling and Pharmacophore-Based Virtual Screening
Muhammad Akram, Teresa Kaserer, and Daniela Schuster
Protein-Ligand Docking: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications
Christoph A. Sotriffer
Protein-Ligand Docking: Virtual Screening and Applications to Drug Discovery
Antonella Ciancetta and Stefano Moro
Protein Structure Modeling in Drug Design
Damián Palomba and Claudio N. Cavasotto
Implicit Solvation Methods in the Study of Ligand-Protein Interactions
William Zamora, Josep M. Campanera, and F. Javier Luque
Toward Complete Cellular Pocketomes and Predictive Polypharmacology
Ruben A. Abagyan and Bryn Taylor
MM-GB/SA Rescoring of Docking Poses: Tricks of the Trade
Cristiano R. W. Guimarães
Free Energy Calculations of Ligand-Protein Binding
Rainer Bomblies, Manuel Luitz, and Martin Zacharias
Molecular Mechanics/Coarse-Grained Simulations as a Structural Prediction Tool for GPCRs/Ligand Complexes
Francesco Musiani, Alejandro Giorgetti, and Paolo Carloni
Fragment-Based Methods in Drug Design
Márton Vass, Gergely Makara, and György Miklós Keseru
Role of Water Molecules and Hydration Properties in Modeling Ligand-Protein Interaction and Drug Design
Alfonso T. García-Sosa
How Protein Flexibility Can Influence Docking/Scoring Simulations
Pietro Cozzini, Luca Dellafiora, Tiziana Ginex, and Francesca Spyrakis
In Silico Approaches Assisting the Rational Design of Low Molecular Weight Protein-Protein Interaction Modulators
Bruno O. Villoutreix, Melaine A. Kuenemann, David Lagorce, Olivier Sperandio, and Maria A. Miteva
Incorporating Binding Kinetics in Drug Design
Chung F. Wong

Biography

Claudio N. Cavasotto earned his MSc and PhD in physics from the University of Buenos Aires. He conducted his postdoctoral training at The Scripps Research Institute after which in 2002 he moved to MolSoft LLC, La Jolla, California, as senior research scientist, where he remained until 2007. He then became assistant and associate professor at the School of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. In 2012 he moved to the Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires-Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society, where he is head of Computational Chemistry and Drug Design. His research interests are primarily biomolecular simulation, computer-aided drug discovery and cheminformatics. His group develops and applies computational methods to study molecular interactions in biological systems, and to design molecules which modulate targets of pharmaceutical relevance.

"... an ambitious book which delivers a great deal of material in one volume. ... a useful addition to the small number of accessible and authoritative books on the subject."
—ChemMedChem, 2016, 11, 638

"… With this book the lids on the algorithm black boxes are lifted and all within the field can clearly see their inner workings. … This book also has the capacity to enthusiastically galvanize those at the cutting-edge of algorithm development. The Thorny problems remaining are illuminated and attacked with vigor, such as how target flexibility and solvation at molecular interfaces can be more accurately modeled and how this may ultimately feed into a better determination of BINDING free energies and the calculation of accurate kinetic parameters."
—Dr. Paul A Bates, The Francis Crick Institute

"… a solid, current, well-written and well-organized set of reviews of important topics in in silico drug discovery. It should be useful for readers, ranging from students to senior scientists, who are looking for accessible overviews of this material."
—Mike Gilson, University of California, San Diego, USA