Pharmacophore perception, development, and use in drug design

The book entitiled Pharmacophore Perception, Development, and Use in Drug Design, which has been just released [1], is the first monograph dedicated to the topic of the pharmacophore. It is authored by 56 experts [2] in the fields of computational chemistry and chemoand bioinformatics. The first chapter stes the tone for the volume by giving a very interesting account of the evolution of the concepts of pharmacophore and related terms such as chromophore, chemotherapy (p.6), topological patterns of molecules, drug-receptor interaction (p.7), ligand-receptor binding, topographic patterns (p.8) and so on. Below is the Table of