Drug design wiki

Drug design, often referred to as rational drug design or simply rational design, is the inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target. The drug is most commonly an organic small molecule that activates or inhibits the function of a biomolecule such as aprotein, which in turn results in a therapeutic benefit to the patient. 

• ◇Drug targets

• ◇Rational drug discovery
• ◇Computer-aided drug design
• △Types
  • ◇Ligand-based
  • △Structure-based
  • • ◇Binding site identification
    • ◇Scoring functions