Preface

Volume 1:

PART I. MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND RELATED METHODS IN DRUG DISCOVERY
Binding Free Energy Calculations in Drug Discovery
Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics in Drug Discovery
MD Simulations for Drug-Target (Un)Binding Kinetics
Solvation Thermodynamics and its Competitive Saturation as a Paradigm of Co-Solvent Methods

PART II. QUANTUM MECHANICS APPLICATION FOR DRUG DISCOVERY
QM/MM Approaches for Structure Based Drug Design: Techniques and Applications
Recent Advances in Practical Quantum Mechanics and Mixed-QM/MM Driven X-Ray Crystallography and Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) and their Impact on Structure-Based Drug Discovery
Quantum-Mechanical Analyses of Interactions for Biochemical Applications

PART III. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PRE-CLINICAL DRUG DISCOVERY
The Role of Computer Aided Drug Design in Drug Discovery - An Introduction
AI-Based Protein Structure Predictions and their Implications in Drug Discovery
Deep Learning for the Structure-Based Binding Free Energy Prediction of Small Molecule Ligands
Using Artificial Intelligence for the De Novo Drug Design and Retrosynthesis
Reliability and Applicability Assessment for Machine Learning Models

Volume 2:

PART IV. CHEMICAL SPACE AND KNOWLEDGE BASED DRUG DISCOVERY
Enumerable Libraries and Accessible Chemical Space
Navigating Chemical Space
Visualization, Exploration, and Screening of Chemical Space in Drug Discovery
SAR Knowledge Based for Driving Drug Discovery
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) - Drug Discovery through Data Mining and Knowledge Based Tools

PART V. STRUCTURE-BASED VIRTUAL SCREENING USING DOCKING
Structure-Based Ultra-Large Scale Virtual Screenings
Community Benchmarking Exercises for Docking and Scoring

PART VI. IN SILICO ADMET MODELLING
Advances in the Application of In Silico ADMET Models - An Industry Perspective

PART VII. COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES FOR NEW THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES
Modelling the Structures of Ternary Complexes Mediated by Molecular Glues
Free Energy Calculations in Covalent Drug Design

PART VIII. COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES DRIVING DRUG DISCOVERY
Orion® A Cloud-Native Molecular Design Platform
Cloud-Native Rendering Platform and GPUs Aid Drug Discovery
The Quantum Computing Paradigm

Computational Drug Discovery

Methods and Applications