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Virtual Screening in Drug Discovery


Publication Date   March 2005
Publisher   CRC Press
Product Type   Book
Pages   496
ISBN Number   0824754794
Product Code   CRC084
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Summary


With millions of compounds available for screening and thousands of gene products as potential targets for therapeutic intervention, high-throughput screening (HTS) requires extensive libraries and automated screening systems to discover adequate leads for drug development. This can become expensive, and in recent years has proven minimally effective. Virtual screening uses computational tools to identify biologically active molecules against specific targets. By pre-qualifying compounds for testing, this method reduces costs and increases hit rates by eliminating the need for robotics, reagent acquisition or production, and compound storage facilities. This text explores the algorithms involved and their uses in virtual screening.

Content


Preface
List of Contributors
PERSPECTIVES ON VIRTUAL SCREENING
Virtual Screening: Scope and Limitations, G. Klebe
Addressing the Virtual Screening Challenge-The Flex* Approach, M. Gastreich, C. Lemmen, H. Briem, and M. Rarey
An Analysis of Critical Factors Affecting Docking and Scoring, E. Perola, W.P. Walters, and P.S. Charifson

COMPOUND AND HIT SUITABILITY FOR VIRTUAL SCREENING
Compound Selection for Virtual Screening, T.I. Oprea, C. Bologa, and M. Olah
Experimental Identification of Promiscuous, Aggregate-Forming Screening Hits, S.L. McGovern

LIGAND-BASED VIRTUAL SCREENING APPRAOCHES
Data Mining Approaches for Enhancement of Knowledge-Based Content of De Novo Chemical Libraries, N.P. Savchuk and V. Balakin
Pharmacophore-Based Virtual Screening: A Practical Perspective, J.H. Van Drie
Using Pharmacophore Multiplet Fingerprints for Virtual HTS, R.D. Clark, P.C. Fox, and E. Abrahamian

IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS IMPACTING MOLECULAR DOCKING
Potential Functions for Virtual Screening and Ligand Binding Calculations: Some Theoretical Considerations, K.A. Sharp
Solvation-Based Scoring for High-Throughput Docking, T.S. Rush III, E. Manas, G. Tawa, and J. Alvarez
Classification of Ligand-Receptor Complexes Based on Receptor Binding Site Characteristics, M.S.L. Lim-Wilby, T.A. Lyons, M. Dooley, A. Goupil-Lamy, S. Patel, C. Schneider, R. Hoffman, H-O. Bertrand, and O.F. Guner

DOCKING STRATEGIES AND ALGORITHMS
A Practical Guide to DOCK 5, D.T. Moustakas, S.C.H. Pegg, and I.D. Kuntz
Pharmacophore-Based Molecular Docking: A Practical Guide, D. Joseph-McCarthy, I.J. McFayden, J. Zou, G. Walker, and J.C. Alvarez
Fragment Based High Throughput Docking, P. Kolb, M. Cecchini, D. Huang, and A. Caflisch
Protein-Ligand Docking and Virtual Screening With GOLD, J.C. Cole, J. Willem, M. Nissink, and R. Taylor
A Brief History of Glide: A New Paradigm for Docking and Scoring in Virtual Screening, T. A. Halgren, R. B. Murphy, and R.A. Friesner