Bioinformatics in Drug Design and Discovery

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of modern sequencing technology, this decade has witnessed huge biomedical data advances, which have opened a new window for clinical diagnoses and therapeutics of complex disease. Bioinformatics can extract, analyze, and communicate hidden information from sequences and structures as well as functional knowledge of nucleic acids and proteins in order to discover and identify new drug targets. This can potentially guide the design of therapeutic drugs that can activate or block the biological functions of biomolecules and help to construct various prediction models to aid virtual bioactive screening. This will, in turn, help to design and discover safer and more efficient therapeutic drugs that can either activate or block the biological functions of biomolecules. Thus, there is a need to fundamentally address all the above-mentioned issues in the application of bioinformatics techniques and the development of novel drugs. Here, we seek original research papers and reviews for a interdisciplinary Topic on the theme of bioinformatics in drug design and discovery.

Dr. Bing Niu
Dr. Pufeng Du
Dr. Suren Rao. Sooranna
Topic Editors