Drug Discovery and Development

Drug Design

Drug design, habitually stated 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 utmost commonly an organic trivial molecule that activates or inhibits the function of a biomolecule such as a protein, which in turn results in a therapeutic benefit to the patient. In the most fundamental sense, drug design encompasses the design of molecules that are complementary in shape and charge to the biomolecular target with which they interact and therefore will bind to it. Drug design seldom but not inevitably relies on computer modeling techniques. This type of sculpting is sometimes bring up to as computer-aided drug design. Finally, drug design that relies on the acquaintance of the three-dimensional erection of the biomolecular target is known as structure-based drug design.