Virtual screening is being routinely used as an integral part of today's hit-identification strategies for, on one hand, prioritizing large corporate screening collections and, on the other hand, to extend the scope of screening to external databases. A brief description of the essential elements required for virtual screening and an application example to the identification of agonist hits for...

dna sequence determination is a tremendous human achievement. dna sequencing includes several methods and technologies in use for determining the order of the nucleotide bases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine) in a molecule of dna. knowledge of dna sequences has become indispensable for basic biological research, other research branches utilizing dna sequencing, and in numerous applied ...