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Martin Lepšík1, Jan Řezáč1, Michal Kolář1
1Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry and Gilead Science and IOCB Research Center, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nam. 2, 166 10 Prague 6 (Czech Republic).
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This Minireview discusses the latest developments in modern quantum mechanics (QM)-based computer-aided drug design, especially using semiempirical QM (SQM) methods. It first tackles biochemical and biophysical quantities and the approaches to their measurements. Protein-ligand affinities are determined mostly by noncovalent interactions. The text thus illustrates how these can be accurately treated with SQM methods. Next, a construction of a modern SQM-based scoring function is presented and its applications listed. In summary, SQM-based scoring is a promising modern efficient strategy to be exploited in computer-aided drug design.
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