Scaffold Hopping / Fragment Linking / Ligand Growing / R-Group Screening / Medicinal Chemistry Transformations / Pharmacophores / Fragment Databases
The course will focus on fragment-based drug design tools in MOE. Combinatorial fragment design and scaffold replacement in the receptor active site will be covered in detail, along with approaches for fragment linking and growing. A method for generating a series of closely related derivatives through medicinal chemistry transformations will also be presented. Finally, the use of pharmacophores and 2D/3D descriptors to guide drug design processes will be discussed.