Integrative Computational Strategies for Drug Screening
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Computational and Theoretical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 32113
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular structure; computational and theoretical chemistry; molecular dynamics simulations, cryo-electron microscopy and single-molecule experiments
Interests: computer-aided drug discovery; protein modelling; cheminformatics; machine learning in drug discovery
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Computational methods for drug discovery have proven useful in the search for new therapeutic agents. There is a wide variety of strategies ranging from low cost pharmacophore-based methods to highly accurate techniques, for example, free energy perturbation or thermodynamic integration using molecular dynamics simulations. Recently, considerable progress has been made with protocols that combine different methods differing in computational costs and accuracy, allowing for an efficient compound screening. The purpose of this special edition “Integrative Computational Strategies for Drug Screening” is to present the state-of-the-art methodologies for in silico drug discovery, covering the integration of the many computational techniques -such as pharmacophore-based modeling, docking, molecular dynamics simulations, quantum mechanics-, and supplying the community with the most recent advances in the field.
Dr. Pilar Cossio
Dr. Claudio Cavasotto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Drug discovery
- Integrative methods
- Funnel-like strategies
- Pharmacophore
- Docking
- Molecular dynamics
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