Computer-Aided Molecular Design: Theory and Applications - Hardcover

Doucet, Jean-Pierre; Weber, Jacques

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0122212851 ISBN 13: 9780122212857

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 1996

Synopsis

The computer-aided design of novel molecular systems has undoubtedly reached the stage of a mature discipline offering a broad range of tools available to virtually any chemist. However, there are few books coveringmost of these techniques in a single volume and using a language which may generally be understood by students or chemists with a limited knowledge of theoretical chemistry. The purpose of this book is precisely to review, in such a language, both methodological aspects and important applications of computer-aided molecular design (CAMD), with a special emphasis on drug design and protein modeling. Using numerous examples ranging from molecular models to shapes, surfaces, and volumes, Computer-Aided Molecular Design provides coverage of the role molecular graphics play in CAMD. The text also treats the very notion of the structure of molecular systems by presenting both the various experimental techniques giving access to it and the most common model builders based on force fields. Separate chapters are devoted to other important topics in CAMD, such as Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations; most common quantum chemical methods; derivation and visualization of molecular properties; and molecular similarity. Finally, strategies used in protein modeling and drug design, such as receptor mapping and the pharmacophore approach, are presented and illustrated by several examples. The book is addressed to students and researchers who wish to enter this new exciting field of molecular sciences, but also practitioners in CAMD as a comprehensive source of refreshing information in their field.

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Product Description

487pages. 24x17x3cm. Relié.

Review

This is a very useful refernce and text for beginning and advanced researchers in molecular modeling. It should be strongly considered by instructors as a potential student text for academic or industrial courses in molecular modeling.
--Glen E. Kellogg in JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0122212851
• ISBN 13: 9780122212857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 487