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Specialty Chemistry Forums => Biochemistry and Chemical Biology Forum => Topic started by: mana on January 17, 2021, 02:22:13 PM

Title: drug design applications in industry
Post by: mana on January 17, 2021, 02:22:13 PM

hi all
does computational drug design such as QSAR and pharmacophore modeling have any application in the industry? or just it is valuable in finding new theories and publishing paper?

Title: Re: drug design applications in industry
Post by: jeffmoonchop on January 17, 2021, 03:06:11 PM

I think in larger companies there are in silico departments where computational chemistry is common. Even in small biotech companies like mine we would like someone to model our work because it can be quicker and cheaper to screen potential targets than to actually spend the money on materials to do it experimentally.

Title: Re: drug design applications in industry
Post by: Babcock_Hall on January 18, 2021, 03:10:16 PM

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30620568/

Vertex Pharmaceuticals comes to mind, but I don't know any specifics concerning their techniques.