Computer-Aided Drug Design and Delivery Systems

by Ahindra Nag, Baishakhi Dey

Overview

THE LATEST BREAKTHROUGHS IN COMPUTER-AIDED DRUG DESIGN AND DELIVERY

This definitive text provides in-depth information on computer-assisted techniques for discovering, designing, and optimizing new, effective, and safe drugs. Computer-Aided Drug Design and Delivery Systems offers objective and quantitative data on the use and delivery of drugs in humans. Enabling technologies such as bioinformatics, pharmacokinetics, biosensors, robotics, and bioinstruments are thoroughly discussed in this innovative work.

Coverage includes:

• Computer-aided drug design (CADD)
• Drug delivery systems
• Bioinformatics of drug molecules and databases
• Lipase- and esterase-mediated drugs and drug intermediates
• Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs
• Biomarkers, biosensors, and robotics in medicine
• Biomedical instrumentation

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071701259
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/06/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Ahindra Nag is a professor in the Chemistry Department at the Indian Institute of Technology.

Baishakhi Dey is affiliated with A.M .Reddy Memorial College of Pharmacy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD); Chapter 2. Drug Delivery Systems; Chapter 3. Bioinformatics of Drug Molecules and Databases; Chapter 4. Lipase- and Esterase-Mediated Drugs and Drug Intermediates; Chapter 5. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in Drugs; Chapter 6. Biomarkers, Biosensors, and Robotics in Medicine; Chapter 7. Biomedical Instrumentation; Index