In Silico Approaches to Drug Design and Discovery
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Informatics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editor
Interests: multi-target drug discovery; chemoinformatics; QSAR-based approaches; virtual screening; multi-scale de novo drug design; machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,
In silico approaches continue to positively impact drug discovery, accelerating the identification and/or rational design of efficacious and safer therapeutics. This Special Issue invites high-quality contributions that explore computational strategies within the drug design and discovery realm, including (but not limited to) molecular modeling, traditional ligand- and structure-based drug design methods, chemoinformatics, QSAR/QSPR, machine learning, virtual screening, and computational de novo design, amongst others. We welcome original research, reviews, and perspective articles that advance computational strategies across diverse therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, cancers, neurological disorders, cardiovascular medical conditions, and many others). We are particularly interested in studies that highlight the potentialities and evolution of in silico approaches in the context of small-molecule drug discovery, biosequence-based bioactive molecules (peptides, aptamers, and microRNAs), and nanomedicine research. This Issue aims to highlight the key role of in silico approaches in shaping the next generation of therapeutics—we look forward to your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Alejandro Speck-Planche
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- chemoinformatics
- computational de novo design and generative AI methods
- machine learning
- deep learning
- molecular modeling
- pharmacophore modeling
- molecular docking
- molecular dynamics
- QSAR/QSPR
- virtual screening
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