title: [Research progress of virtual screening aided drug discovery].
abstract: In the process of new drug discovery, the application of virtual screening can enrich active compounds, reduce the cost of drug screening, and increase the feasibility of drug screening. Therefore virtual screening technology has become an important approach for new drug discovery. As virtual screening and bioactivity screening possess different advantages, their combination can effectively promote new drug discovery. In the present paper, the application and the trend of removal of non-drug compounds, removal of false positive compounds, pharmacophore searching, molecular docking, and molecular similarity in the process of drug discovery are introduced in order to obtain more benefit from virtual screening strategy for new drug discovery.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100050, China.
authors.forename: Ai-Lin
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Guan-Hua
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Du
mesh_terms: D015195:Drug Design; D055808:Drug Discovery; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical; D008958:Models, Molecular