This volume offers a broad and interdisciplinary view of modern
approaches to drug discovery as used by pharmaceutical companies and
research institutes. It comprehensively covers proteomics,
bioinformatics, screening techniques such as high-throughput-, natural
compounds-, and NMR-based-screenings, combinatorial chemistry, compound
library design, ligand- and structure-based drug design and
pharmacokinetic approaches. Each of the thirteen chapters reviews the
theory, background and application of a key technology in drug discovery
and is complemented by an extensive list of references to the original
literature.
This concise source of information will be useful to workers in the
pharmaceutical industry as well as researchers and students in the
fields of medicinal, pharmaceutical and computational chemistry,
bioinformatics, biochemistry, molecular biology and pharmacology.