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Figure 6<br />

Contemporary drug discovery: integration of structure-<strong>based</strong> drug design,<br />

synthetic chemical libraries, and high-throughput mass screening technologies<br />

Finally, the convergence of structure-<strong>based</strong> drug design (biophysical and computational chemistry),<br />

synthetic chemical libraries, and high-throughput screening technologies have established a new<br />

paradigm for drug discovery (Figure 6). This powerful alliance of scientific disciplines is accelerating<br />

the identification of lead compounds and/or the optimization of drug candidates. The impact to<br />

academic, biotechnological and pharmaceutical research will be immense.<br />

C. Receptor, Protease, and Signal Transduction-Protein Targets<br />

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<strong>Structure</strong>-<strong>based</strong> drug design and peptidomimetic drug discovery has emerged as a powerful approach in<br />

many areas of pharmaceutical research, including receptor agonists and antagonists, protease inhibitors,<br />

and, more recently, in the rapidly developing area of signal transduction, in which the protein targets<br />

include catalytic and noncatalytic domains of a particular intracellular macro<br />

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