Course: Drug Design

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Course title Drug Design
Course code UCH/960
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Frequency of the course In academic years starting with an odd year (e.g. 2019/2020), in the summer semester.
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Fanfrlík Jindřich, RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Lepšík Martin, RNDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Content of lectures: Introduction -history and presence of discovery and development of drugs Pharmacology targets, biomolecular structure and interactions with ligands Characteristics of biologically active compounds Noncovalent interactions Docking and scoring Advanced docking and scoring (WaterMap, MM-PBSA, FEP, QM) Rational design in practice Content of practicals: Visualisation, PDB database, PDB files Interactions in protein-ligand complexes, characteristics of ligands Docking and scoring Student mini-project

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course aims at teaching knowledge and practical skills with computational methods used in modern drug design.
Getting the knowledge and practical skills with computational methods used in modern drug design.
Prerequisites
No requirements

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
The course is accompanied by PDF presentations which are meant to remind of the topics. Minimum of 50% of piont is required for the succesfull exam.
Recommended literature
  • Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen, Kristian Stromgaard, Ulf Madsen: Textbook of drug design and discovery.
  • Young, D.C. Computational Drug Design. Wiley, 2009.


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