This book is a collection of readily reproducible bioinformatic methods to
advance the drug discovery process from gene identification to protein modeling
to the identification of specific drug candidates. The authors demonstrate these
techniques, including microarray analysis, the analysis of genes as potential
drug targets, virtual screening and in silico protein design, and
cheminformatics, in a variety of practical situations. Because these
technologies are still emergent, each chapter contains an extended introduction
that explains the theory and application of the technology and techniques
described.