In this review, several aspects of virtual screening are presented. Although, docking and
scoring have been the most widely employed techniques, ligand-based virtual screening …

Retrospect and Prospect of Virtual Screening in Drug Discovery Page 1 Current Topics in
Medicinal Chemistry 2002, 2, 1305-1320 1305 1568-0266/02 $35.00+.00 © 2002 Bentham …

Virtual (database) screening (VS) of molecules promises to accelerate the discovery of new
drugs and reduce costs by identifying molecules with high probabilities of binding to a target …

Introduction: Virtual screening (VS) has emerged as an important tool in identifying bioactive
compounds through computational means, by employing knowledge about the protein target …

There are several methods for virtual screening of databases of small organic compounds to
find tight binders to a given protein target. Recent reviews in Drug Discovery Today have …

Virtual screening (VS) overcomes the limitations of traditional high-throughput screening
(HTS) by applying computer-based methods in drug discovery. VS takes advantage of fast …

This study addresses a number of topical issues around the use of protein− ligand docking
in virtual screening. We show that, for the validation of such methods, it is key to use focused …

This viewpoint is intended to counterbalance some recent publications describing large-
scale virtual screening by illustrating how success in launching drug discovery projects has …

Virtual screening (VS) is presently a key component in the process of drug design and
development. VS is normally regarded as the selection of likely drug candidates from large …

Stages in a typical drug discovery organization include target selection, hit identification,
lead optimization, preclinical and clinical studies. Hit identification and lead optimization are …