Computer-Based Approaches to Drug Design

Two major factors have influenced the dramatic growth in the use of computer-modeling techniques as an integral aspect of the drug discovery process. The first of these has been the increased availability of powerful, but relatively inexpensive, computer systems in both academic and industrial research laboratories. This provided researchers with direct access to a level of computational capacity that had previously been available only on large and prohibitively expensive mainframe computers. The second important factor was the availability of high-speed, high-resolution, graphical display systems.

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