Drug Design Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2021) | Viewed by 3019
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fungal infection; biotechnology; recombinant protein; genomic; antifungals
Interests: fungal infection; antifungals; biotechnology; recombinant protein; bioinformatics; drug design
Interests: virtual screening; molecular dynamics; Monte Carlo; QM/MM; molecular recognition; optimization; data mining; clustering; deep learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Neglected tropical diseases are a major public health problem in tropical and subtropical countries. According to the WHO, they affect one billion people, and the costs for developing economies are in the range of billions of dollars each year. Advances in the frontier areas of knowledge, such as genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics, have opened up new perspectives regarding the design of new therapeutic options, especially for diseases for which investment is restricted.
Thus, this Special Issues aims to discuss the state-of-the-art methodologies being used in drug design as well as their challenges and perspectives. In addition, it will review the literature regarding diseases whose studies are most advanced and whether models developed for those diseases can be applied to other diseases.
Prof. Dr. Maria Sueli Soares Felipe
Prof. Dr. Erika Seki Kioshima Cotica
Dr. Bernard Maigret
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neglected tropical diseases
- drug design
- drug repositioning
- in silico approaches
- drug targets
