Description: This book will be invaluable to all drug discovery scientists, including medicinal and combinatorial chemists, molecular modellers, bio- and cheminformaticians, and pharmacologists.
Pharmaceutical research draws on increasingly complex techniques to solve the challenges of drug design. Bringing together a number of the latest informatics techniques, this book looks at modeling and bioinformatic strategies; structural genomics and X-ray crystallography; virtual screening; lead optimization; ADME profiling and vaccine design. A number of relevant case studies, focusing on techniques that have demonstrated their use, will concentrate on G-protein coupled receptors as potential disease targets.