Recent Updates on Computer-aided Drug Discovery: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Title:Recent Updates on Computer-aided Drug Discovery: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Volume: 17 Issue: 30

Author(s): Talambedu Usha, Dhivya Shanmugarajan, Arvind Kumar Goyal, Chinaga Suresh Kumar and Sushil Kumar Middha *

Affiliation:

• DBT-BIF facility, Department of Biotechnology, Science Research Centre, Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni, College for Women, Bengaluru, Karnataka,India

Keywords: Drug discovery, Pharmacophore, Receptor-ligand, Molecular dynamics, in-silico, CADD.

Abstract: Computer-Aided Drug Designing (CADD) has gained a wide popularity among biologists and chemists as a part of interdisciplinary drug discovery approach. It plays a vital role in the discovery, design and analysis of drugs in pharmaceutical industry. It is extensively used to reduce cost, time and speed up the early stage development of biologically new active molecules.

In the current review we presented a brief review of CADD, merits and demerits, DNA, protein and enzyme as targets, types of CADD: Structure Based Drug Designing (SBDD), Ligand Based Drug Designing (LBDD), Pharmacophore based drug designing (PBDD) and Fragment Based Drug Designing (FBDD), theory behind the types of CADD and their applications. The review also focuses on the in-silico pharmokinetic, pharmacodynamic and toxicity filters or predictions that play a major role in identifying the drug like molecules. Currently in pharmaceutical sciences computational tools and software are exhibiting imperative role in the different stages of drug discovery hence the review throws light on various commercial and freeware available for each step of CADD.

Cite this article as:

Usha Talambedu , Shanmugarajan Dhivya, Goyal Kumar Arvind , Kumar Suresh Chinaga and Middha Kumar Sushil *, Recent Updates on Computer-aided Drug Discovery: Time for a Paradigm Shift, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 2017; 17 (30) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1568026618666180101163651