1st Edition

Adaptive Systems in Drug Design

By Gisbert Schneider, Sung-Sau So Copyright 2003
    169 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    A brief history of drug design presented to make clear that there are fashions in this important field and that they change rather rapidly. This is due in part to the fact that the way that a new paradigm is accepted in a drug company often does not depend on its scientific merit alone.

    Foreword, Preface, 1. A Conceptual Framework, 2. Analysis of Chemical Space, 3. Modeling Structure-Activity Relationships, 4. Prediction of Drug-Like Properties, 5. Evolutionary De Novo Design; Epilogue

    Biography

    Gisbert Schneider, Ph.D., Beilstein Professor of Cheminformatics, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany. Sung-Sau So, Ph.D., F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. Discovery Chemistry, Nutley, New Jersey, U.S.A.