Module Title | Module 6: Fragment based drug design and virtual screening |
| Module Code | MEDC0080 |
| Module Leader | Dr Edith Chan |
| Short description | Fragment based drug design is an established and successful concept and practices in drug discovery projects. |
Module aims | - Learn the concept of fragment-based drug design.
- Learn about interactions between protein and ligands.
- Learn various techniques for performing virtual screening.
- Be able to use commercial software to perform virtual screening. Learn about online chemical databases
- Learn basic Python programming
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List of Lectures and Tutorials | - Fragment based drug discovery
- Computational design of fragments
- Virtual screening
- Learn to use Virtual screening software
- Learn to use online databases for virtual screening.
- Learn Python programing
- Workshop on FBDD by industry expert to learn real practise in FBDD
- Tutorial on basic Python programming using RDKit
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| Module assessment | 50% course work + 50% unseen 1 hour exam |
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