Molecular Docking in Drug Discovery, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 167
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; natural products; antioxidants; anti-inflammatory activity; pharmacokinetics; drug design; structure–activity relationships
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Dear Colleagues,
Molecular docking remains a valuable tool in drug discovery. It is a fast and inexpensive technique for medicinal chemists to predict, identify, and synthesize compounds of potential biological interest, predict ligand-target interactions, or delineate structure–activity relationships (SAR) without the existence of other target modulators. Although initially, it was developed to identify the mechanisms and interactions of a ligand conformation within the binding pocket of a target molecule, many aspects remain challenging, and new approaches are being developed.
This Special Issue describes traditional applications of molecular docking in drug discovery. Recent developments in molecular docking approaches include machine learning and applications such as drug repurposing, adverse effects, polypharmacology, etc. Examination of the various approaches and methods of molecular docking and an exploration of the techniques used for interpreting and validating docking results can be included.
This Special Issue covers the entire field of molecular docking in drug discovery and can contain reviews, research articles, and methodological papers. Manuscripts using structure-based drug design are welcome for targeted drug discovery rational synthesis of agents. Moreover, newer and emerging approaches and applications of molecular dockings, such as algorithms in fragment-based approaches, available benchmarking sets, consensus methods, and machine learning algorithms, can be submitted.
The scope also encompasses the integration of molecular docking with other computational techniques and all future applications when combined with emergent techniques, such as artificial intelligence.
Dr. Eleni Pontiki
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- computer aided drug design
- drug discovery
- molecular docking
- structure–activity relationships
- drug design
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