1st Edition

Virtual Screening in Drug Discovery

Edited By Juan Alvarez, Brian Shoichet Copyright 2005
496 Pages
by CRC Press

496 Pages
by CRC Press

496 Pages
by CRC Press

Virtual screening can reduce costs and increase hit rates for lead discovery by eliminating the need for robotics, reagent acquisition or production, and compound storage facilities. The increased robustness of computational algorithms and scoring functions, the availability of affordable computational power, and the potential for timely structural determination of target molecules, have provided... Read more
Perspectives on Virtual Screening. Compound and Hit Suitability for Virtual Screening. Ligand-Based Virtual Screening Approaches. Important Considerations Impacting Molecular Docking. Docking Strategies and Algorithms.

Biography

Juan Alvarez, Brian Shoichet