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Computer-aided drug design

How does computational chemistry help us make the best drugs? Could advances in computer power, greater knowledge of biological systems, and more accurate atomic predictions lead to a new era of drug discovery? Researchers are investigating properties and interactions of possible drug targets, all using computer-aided drug design

Figure 1 A computer-generated image of a 6AS6 protein molecule, which plays a part in the disease tuberculosis, and an inhibiting drug bound to it (shown in green). The three views (a, b and c) show increasingly magnified views of the active site of the protein molecule

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