Abstract

COMPUTER-AIDED DRUG DESIGN AND DISCOVERY

*Varad Warwadkar

ABSTRACT

Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) is the process of finding, designing, and improving potential medicine using computer tools and techniques. It entails modeling and examining how pharmaceuticals, which are tiny molecules, interact with biological targets, which are typically proteins, in order to forecast a drug's binding efficiency, activity, and possible efficacy. A methodology called Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) makes use computational methods to help design, discovery, and development of novel pharmaceutical molecules. In essence, CADD assists in finding and refining compounds that might be used as medications to cure illnesses. To expedite the drug development process, it integrates concepts from the fields of computing, biology, and chemistry. The technique of developing compounds that can successfully interact and attach to a specific biological goal is known as Computer-Aided Drug Design. Fundamental elements tiny molecules, particularly their spatial arrangement and capacity to selectively attach to the appropriate target, enhance their therapeutic potential and determine how successful small molecule-based chemotherapy is. Although CADD has been around for a while, there has been a significant shift recently in the degree to which algorithms are trusted and used in academic and industrial sectors. Artificial intelligence (AI), bioinformatics, and data science have significantly accelerated drug discovery, reduced expenses, and eliminated the require for experiments on animals in recent years. 

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