Effective treatments extend lives in the world, and significant efforts are in place to expand the use of life-saving medications in the developing world. This paper gives an overview of drug discovery process and emphasises in the area of virtual screening. Because machine learning is fast becoming a popular mechanism to support activity recognition in drug discovery process and other real-wor...

Computer-aided drug design has now become a compulsory tool in the discovery and development process which uses computational approaches to discover potential compounds with expected biological activities. Firstly, this review provides comprehensive introduction of virtual screening technique, knowledge advances both SBVS LBVS strategies also presented. Secondly, recent database provided worldw...

With the exponential rise in the number of viable novel drug targets, computational methods are being increasingly applied to accelerate the drug discovery process. Virtual High Throughput Screening (vHTS) is one such established methodology to identify drug candidates from large collection of compound libraries. Although it complements the expensive and time consuming High Throughput Screening...

Three-dimensional (3D) cultures are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to mimic tissuelike structures more effectively than monolayer cultures. In cancer research, the natural tumor characteristics and architecture are more closely mimicked by 3D cell models. Thus, 3D cell cultures are more promising and suitable models, particularly for in vitro drug screening to predict in viv...

BACKGROUND Antimicrobial resistance is a great concern in the medical community, as well as food industry. Soy peptides were tested against bacterial biofilms for their antimicrobial activity. A high throughput drug screening assay was developed using microfluidic technology, RAMAN spectroscopy, and optical microscopy for rapid screening of antimicrobials and rapid identification of pathogens. ...

Fragment-based screening has recently evolved into a promising strategy in drug discovery, and a range of biophysical methods can be employed for fragment library screening. Relevant approaches, such as X-ray, NMR and tethering are briefly introduced focussing on their suitability for fragment-based drug discovery. In particular the application of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) techniques to t...

The increasing number and diversity of compounds made available by rapid synthesis techniques such as combinatorial chemistry, combined with high throughput or ultra-high throughput in vitro drug screening assays, generate large numbers of preliminary “hits”. However, validating these preliminary hits by mammalian animal models is very slow and costly, resulting in a gap in the drug development...

Combination of RGD cell adhesion peptide with GHK modulator synergistically improves targeting tumor cells. Amphiphilic peptides can be effectively displayed on liposomal surface for screening and drug delivery applications.