Gupta G. Chemical Drug Design 2016

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Chemical Drug Design provides a compact overview on recent advances in this rapidly developing field. With contributions on in silico drug design, natural product based compounds, as well as on ligand- and structure-based approaches, the authors present innovative methods and techniques for identifying and synthetically designing novel drugs.
Combines industrial and academic perspectives.
Includes a critical discussion about drug resistance.
Overview of chemical drug design
Drug designing in novel drug discovery: Trends, scope and relevance
Structure- and ligand-based approaches in drug designing
Drug design applied to natural products against neglected diseases
Natural product hybrid compounds as drug leads
Drug metabolism
Mistletoe lectin: A promising cancer therapeutic
Antipsychotics
Chemometric analysis: A novel tool for herbal drug analysis and designing
Copper and its complexes: A pharmaceutical perspectives
Thiazole: A privileged scaffold in drug discovery