Small molecule design can involve assessment of target druggability and flexibility, molecular docking, in silico fragment screening, molecular dynamics, and homology modeling.
Small molecule design can involve assessment of target druggability and flexibility, molecular docking, in silico fragment screening, molecular dynamics, and homology modeling.
There are two broad categories of small molecule design techniques when applied to the design of drugs: ligand-based drug design (e.g. ligand similarity) and structure-based drug design (ligand docking) methods. Ligand similarity methods exploit structural similarities to known active ligands, whereas ligand docking methods use the 3D structure of a target protein to predict the binding modes and affinities of ligands to it.