Download or read book Virtual Screening in Drug Discovery written by Juan Alvarez and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual screening can reduce costs and increase hit rates for lead discovery by eliminating the need for robotics, reagent acquisition or production, and compound storage facilities. The increased robustness of computational algorithms and scoring functions, the availability of affordable computational power, and the potential for timely structural