Current Issue : July- September Volume : 2012 Issue Number : 3 Articles : 1 Articles
Drug design is a process driven by innovation and technological breakthroughs involving a combination of advanced experimental and computational methods. A broad variety of medicinal chemistry approaches can be used for the identification of hits, generation of leads, as well as to accelerate the optimization of leads into drug candidates. The review encompasses the different search algorithms and the scoring functions used in docking methods Limitations of current technologies as well as future prospects are presented. We attempt to introduce the latest developments in drug design based on computational techniques, including protein structure modeling, docking, binding site prediction, quantitative structureââ?¬â??activity relationship (QSAR), pharmacophore and molecular dynamics simulation. The fundamental issues and challenges involved in comparing various docking methods are discussed. Limitations of current technologies as well as future prospects are presented....
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