Question

explain computer aided drug design

Answer 1

Computer-aided drug design uses computational approaches to discover, develop, and analyze drug and similar biologically active molecules. The ligand-based computer-aided drug discovery (LB-CADD) approach involves the analysis of ligands known to interact with a target of interest. Structure based drug design (SBDD) and ligand based drug design (LBDD) are the two general types of computer-aided drug design (CADD) approaches in existence.Toward the design of new antibiotics, computer-aided drug design (CADD) can be combined with wet-lab techniques to elucidate the mechanism of drug resistance, to search for new antibiotic targets and to design novel antibiotics for both known and new targets.