Title :
Combatting disease with computer-aided drug design
Author :
Nair, Achuthsankar S.
Abstract :
One of the major offshoots of bioinformatics is computer-aided drug design. Researchers at a university in Sweden have used bioinformatics software alone to develop new potential drug candidates against an essential enzyme of the malaria-inducing parasite, plasmodium falciparum. It is obvious that computational drug design has come to stay
Keywords :
biochemistry; diseases; drugs; genetics; medical computing; molecular biophysics; molecular configurations; proteins; Sweden; bioinformatics software; computer-aided drug design; disease; enzyme; genes; malaria-inducing parasite; plasmodium falciparum; proteins; Bonding; Clinical trials; Costs; Crystallization; Crystallography; Diseases; Drugs; Proteins; Testing; Visualization;
Journal_Title :
Potentials, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/P-M.2006.248057
