Summary

Quantitative structure-activity relationships constitute a subject which has seen enormous growth in the past decade. Techniques which have been developed and used widely outside of medicinal chemistry are now used by those working with QSAR. These techniques employ powerful computers, molecular graphics systems and sophisticated software. Although QSAR techniques have been developed to optimize activities of known sets of analogs, recent methodologies suggest that these techniques can be useful in the modeling of new chemical entities. The contributions in this state-of-the-art volume cover a wide range of disciplines, tools and ideas which will be of interest to medicinal chemists, pharmacologists and biologists. The book gives an update of progress in the science of the quantitative approaches of the interface between chemistry, physical chemistry and biology-pharmacology. The use of molecular graphics, computational and conformational methods in drug research is extensively covered.