Computational chemistry

By Peter Ertl, Wolfgang Miltz, Bernhard Rohde and Paul Selzer Readily accessible tools with easy to use interfaces, especially integrated into regularly used desktop applications, can improve the impact of cheminformatics in pharmacological research. Starting either from a single molecule or from a larger data set, these tools provide information that can considerably improve the […]

HTS a strategy for drug discovery By Dr AR Knight, Cerebrus Ltd Whichever technologies are implemented, high throughput screening is set to become one of the cornerstones of drug discovery, however deciding which strategy to implement will provide many headaches. This article concentrates on screens identifying the interaction of small molecules with protein targets rather […]

By Professor Ken Powell, Deputy Director, Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research Pharmaceutical research and development is changing. The old model of drug discovery, based on a combination of imprecise candidate generation and broad physiological screens, has given way to more specific and intelligent approaches to target identification and drug design. Now, a vast influx of […]