Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Research

Computer Assisted Drug Design

Computer-aided drug design (CADD) includes finding, developing and analysing medicines and related biological active compounds by computer methodologies. The use of CADD methodologies speeds up the early stages of chemical development while guiding and speeding up drug discovery. Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) emerged as an efficient means of identifying potential lead compounds and for aiding the developments of possible drugs for a wide range of diseases. Today, a number of computational approaches are being used to identify potential lead molecules from huge compound libraries. Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD) CADD helps scientists in minimizing the synthetic and biological testing efforts by focussing only on the most promising compounds. Besides explaining the molecular basis of therapeutic activity, it also predicts possible derivatives that would improve activity.