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Fragment-Based Drug Design in Lead Discovery

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This chapter focuses on the main new drug development strategies using the fragment-based drug design (FBDD) approach and its relationship with high-throughput screening (HTS) methods. Different methods of building fragment libraries and methods for identifying potential sites of interaction in macromolecules are discussed. A discussion about the experimental techniques useful in FBDD, such as nuclear magnetic resonance, surface plasmon resonance, X-ray crystallography, thermal shift assay, isothermal titration calorimetry and mass spectrometry, also makes it possible to understand the potential of this way of searching for new candidates for bioactive compounds.

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Oliveira, A.M., Rudrapal, M. (2023). Fragment-Based Drug Design in Lead Discovery. In: Rudrapal, M., Khan, J. (eds) CADD and Informatics in Drug Discovery. Interdisciplinary Biotechnological Advances. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1316-9_8

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