Phytochemistry, Computational Tools, and Databases in Drug Discovery

Chukwuebuka Egbuna, Mithun Rudrapal, Habibu Tijjani
Elsevier
490 pages
ISBN: 9780323905930
December 2022

This book presents the state-of-the-art in computational methods and techniques for drug discovery studies from medicinal plants. Various tools and databases for virtual screening and characterization of plant bioactive compounds and their subsequent predictions on biological targets for the discovery of new drugs against specific diseases are presented, along with computational tools for the prediction of the toxic effects of phytochemicals on living systems.