Drug Design Cutting Edge Approaches [Hardcover]

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 modelling and bioinformatic strategies; structural genomics and X-ray crystallography; virtual screening; lead optimisation; ADME profiling and vaccine design. A number of relevant case studies, focussing on techniques that have demonstrated their use, will concentrate on G-protein coupled receptors as potential disease targets. Providing details of state-of-the-art research, Drug Design: Cutting Edge Approaches will be invaluable to all drug discovery scientists, including medicinal and combinatorial chemists, molecular modellers, bio- and chemoinformaticians, and pharmacologists, amongst others. University and pharmaceutical company libraries will also benefit from having a copy on their shelves.Introduction; High-Throughput X-Ray Crystallography for Drug Discovery; Bioinformatics in Drug Design: a GPCR case study; Virtual Screening of Virtual Libraries - an Efficient Strategy for Lead Generation; Virtual Techniques for Lead Optimisation; The Impact of Physical Organic Chemistry on the Control of Drug-like Properties; Mutagenesis and Modelling Highlight the Critical Nature of the TM2-loop-TM3 region of biogenic amine GPCRS; Computational Vaccine Design; Subject Index. ... a book that can be understood by the lay person ... For anyone interested in reading about some individual facets of drug research, ...this book can be recommended. Providing details of state-of-the-art research, Drug Design: Cutting Edge Approaches will be invaluable to all drug discovery scientists.