Virtual Screening: Is Bigger Always Better? Or Can Small Be Beautiful?

J Chem Inf Model

Charles River, 6-9 Spire Green Centre, Harlow, Essex CM19 5TR, United Kingdom.

Published: September 2020

This viewpoint is intended to counterbalance some recent publications describing large-scale virtual screening by illustrating how success in launching drug discovery projects has been achieved with much more modest resources. Two examples of small-scale virtual screening that led to the discovery of clinical candidates are cited in favor of this argument.

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