Note for: Computer-Aided Drug Design of Bioactive Natural Products
Note for: Computer-Aided Drug Design of Bioactive Natural Products (doi: 10.2174/1568026615666150506151101 ) The associated data mining tools are useful for creating databases, and molecular docking is capable of identifying potential targets by docking drugs to large libraries of proteins. The process of hit identification can be performed using high throughput screening (HTS) and virtual screening. Virtual screening is an effective means of searching for potential compounds by using computational approaches. One widely used computational method in this process is molecular docking. Active compounds with good binding affinity to the target, represented by a docking score. Privileged structures are defined as molecular substructures that are capable of binding to a diverse array of receptors, and the modification of these substructures can provide an alternative approach to the discovery of novel receptor agonists and antagonists. Diverse types of privileged st...