Marine Drug Discovery through Computer-Aided Approaches

Dear Colleagues,

Computer-Aided Ligand- and Structure-based methodologies are an evolving field in the discovery of Marine Drugs. Computational approaches and chemistry simulation methods, using bioinformatics and chemoinformatics tools, applications and databases, can be successfully used in the discovering, designing, and development of new chemical agents for therapeutic purposes, by assisting in the structure elucidation of secondary metabolites; repurposing known marine natural products (MNPs) for new therapeutic targets, identifying novel hits or leads against selected therapeutic targets, revealing mechanisms of action and supporting medicinal chemistry lead optimization programs.

This Special Issue of Marine Drugs entitled “Marine Drug Discovery through Computer-Aided Approaches” aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the great variety of existing and advanced Computer-Aided Approaches for the discovery and identification of molecular agents with added value and health-promoting properties for the development of biotechnological and medical applications.

As guest editors, we invite colleagues performing research on computer – aided drug discovery to contribute with your interesting papers to this Special Issue of Marine Drugs.

Dr. Susana P Gaudencio
Dr. Florbela Pereira
Guest Editors

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