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Drug design
Drug design
Invention of a new pharmaceutical drug based on the Knowledge of the biological target
Pharmaceutical drug or Medication or Medicament or Medicine
Classes of Medications
Chemical properties
Route of administration
Biological system
Therapeutic effects
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system (ATC)
ATC system
1. Antipyretics: Reducing fever
2. Analgesics: Reducing pain
3. Antimalarial drugs: Treating malaria
4. Antibiotics: Inhibiting germ growth
5. Antiseptics: Germ prevention near burns, cuts and wounds
Strategies
1. Ligand based
2. Structure based
