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2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (23) ◽  
pp. 5869-5870
Author(s):  
Manfred E. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Systems Biology ◽  
Drug Design ◽  
Small Molecules ◽  
Chemical Biology

Experimental and Computational Approaches to Improve Binding Affinity in Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (19) ◽  
pp. 1651-1660
Author(s):  
Anuraj Nayarisseri
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Drug Design ◽  
Binding Affinity ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Structure Based Drug Design ◽  
Computational Approaches ◽  
Drug Designing ◽  
Traditional Drug ◽  
Computer Based

Drug discovery is one of the most complicated processes and establishment of a single drug may require multidisciplinary attempts to design efficient and commercially viable drugs. The main purpose of drug design is to identify a chemical compound or inhibitor that can bind to an active site of a specific cavity on a target protein. The traditional drug design methods involved various experimental based approaches including random screening of chemicals found in nature or can be synthesized directly in chemical laboratories. Except for the long cycle design and time, high cost is also the major issue of concern. Modernized computer-based algorithm including structure-based drug design has accelerated the drug design and discovery process adequately. Surprisingly from the past decade remarkable progress has been made concerned with all area of drug design and discovery. CADD (Computer Aided Drug Designing) based tools shorten the conventional cycle size and also generate chemically more stable and worthy compounds and hence reduce the drug discovery cost. This special edition of editorial comprises the combination of seven research and review articles set emphasis especially on the computational approaches along with the experimental approaches using a chemical synthesizing for the binding affinity in chemical biology and discovery as a salient used in de-novo drug designing. This set of articles exfoliates the role that systems biology and the evaluation of ligand affinity in drug design and discovery for the future.

scholarly journals Small molecules with big roles in microRNA chemical biology and microRNA-targeted therapeutics

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2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 707-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rengen Fan ◽  
Chaocheng Xiao ◽  
Xinqiang Wan ◽  
Wenzhang Cha ◽  
Yufeng Miao ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Small Molecules ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
Targeted Therapeutics
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