The Application of Phytomedicine in Modern Drug Development

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Maryam Hamzeh-Mivehroud ◽  
Babak Sokouti ◽  
Siavoush Dastmalchi

The need for the development of new drugs to combat existing and newly identified conditions is unavoidable. One of the important tools used in the advanced drug development pipeline is computer-aided drug design. Traditionally, to find a drug many ligands were synthesized and evaluated for their effectiveness using suitable bioassays and if all other drug-likeness features were met, the candidate(s) would possibly reach the market. Although this approach is still in use in advanced format, computational methods are an indispensable component of modern drug development projects. One of the methods used from very early days of rationalizing the drug design approaches is Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR). This chapter overviews QSAR modeling steps by introducing molecular descriptors, mathematical model development for relating biological activities to molecular structures, and model validation. At the end, several successful cases where QSAR studies were used extensively are presented.


Oncology ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 20-66
Author(s):  
Maryam Hamzeh-Mivehroud ◽  
Babak Sokouti ◽  
Siavoush Dastmalchi

The need for the development of new drugs to combat existing and newly identified conditions is unavoidable. One of the important tools used in the advanced drug development pipeline is computer-aided drug design. Traditionally, to find a drug many ligands were synthesized and evaluated for their effectiveness using suitable bioassays and if all other drug-likeness features were met, the candidate(s) would possibly reach the market. Although this approach is still in use in advanced format, computational methods are an indispensable component of modern drug development projects. One of the methods used from very early days of rationalizing the drug design approaches is Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR). This chapter overviews QSAR modeling steps by introducing molecular descriptors, mathematical model development for relating biological activities to molecular structures, and model validation. At the end, several successful cases where QSAR studies were used extensively are presented.


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C.E. Barry, III
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2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 936-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lídia Cunha ◽  
Krisztián Szigeti ◽  
Domokos Mathé ◽  
Luís F. Metello

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 2793-2812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabdan M. Tikhov ◽  
Nikolai Yu. Kuznetsov

The review surveys the existing routes to piperidine-2,4-dione-type heterocycles including derivatives with the most vital types of biological activity. This heterocyclic platform is ideal for the construction of modern drugs and natural products.


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 790-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongrui Gao ◽  
Qingyuan Chen ◽  
Yuanqi Zeng ◽  
Meng Jiang ◽  
Yongqing Zhang

Drug target discovery is a critical step in drug development. It is the basis of modern drug development because it determines the target molecules related to specific diseases in advance. Predicting drug targets by computational methods saves a great deal of financial and material resources compared to in vitro experiments. Therefore, several computational methods for drug target discovery have been designed. Recently, machine learning (ML) methods in biomedicine have developed rapidly. In this paper, we present an overview of drug target discovery methods based on machine learning. Considering that some machine learning methods integrate network analysis to predict drug targets, network-based methods are also introduced in this article. Finally, the challenges and future outlook of drug target discovery are discussed.


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