Developments in Drug Discovery: Computational and Experimental Aspects 2.0
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 2766
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural biology; computational biology; protein crystallography; molecular modeling; molecular docking; drug design; molecular dynamics
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Interests: protein crystallography; drug design; enzymology; structural biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A vast amount of life science research investigates either completely new drugs or improvements to already-existing ones. Drug discovery is a multidisciplinary effort aiming to provide novel natural, semisynthetic, or fully (bio)synthetic therapeutic molecules that could target diseases of humans and animals. These therapeutic agents are most commonly small molecules, but they can also be macromolecules. The field of drug discovery is highly dynamic, with the already well-established yet ever-increasing role of in silico approaches and an urgent need to address drug resistance, especially in the form of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Drug discovery research combines methods, techniques, and expertise from biochemistry, pharmacology, genetic engineering, and medicinal and computational chemistry or cheminformatics.
Here, we invite original research and review articles on drug discovery. The “Molecular Pharmacology” Section aims to publish the latest developments in cellular and molecular pharmacology, with a major emphasis on the mechanisms of action of novel drugs, innovative pharmacological technologies, cell signaling, transduction pathway analysis, genomics, proteomics, and metabonomics applications used to study drug action.
This Special Issue is committed to providing an overview of recent topics and developments from the broad field of drug discovery research. This can include findings of new molecular targets, novel modulators of activity of established targets, and descriptions of promising methods that could enrich the portfolio of available drug discovery techniques.
Dr. Adam Jarmuła
Dr. Piotr Maj
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug discovery
- molecular targets
- receptors
- drug development
- computer-aided drug discovery
- structure-based
- ligand-based
- antimicrobial resistance
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