Antimicrobial Research: In Silico Strategies for Drug Discovery Against Microbial Infections
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 10
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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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microbial infections represent a global threat to public health. With the rise of antimicrobial resistance, there is a pressing need to develop more effective and safer antimicrobial agents to tackle microbial infections. Computational approaches can accelerate the discovery of novel and efficacious antimicrobial agents.
This special issue focuses on the key role of in silico approaches in the fight against microbial infections. We welcome high-impact contributions that explore computational methods such as AI/machine learning, QSAR, complex network analysis, classical ligand- and structure-based drug discovery, de novo design, etc. Submissions may cover a wide range of targets (from proteins to bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic strains) and include both novel and well-established computational techniques.
This Special Issue welcomes review articles, original research contributions, and perspectives where in silico strategies play a central role in antimicrobial drug discovery, including (but not limited to) lead identification, prediction of antimicrobial activity/efficacy, integration of multi-omics data, and many other topics.
Prof. Dr. Alejandro Speck-Planche
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antibacterial
- antifungal
- antiparasitic
- antiviral
- AI/machine learning
- QSAR
- complex network analysis
- ligand-based drug discovery
- structure-based drug discovery
- de novo design
- molecular modeling
- chemoinformatics
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