Chemistry, pharmaceutical technology, and other researchers from around the world present 15 chapters detailing recent advancements in quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) and their application to drug development, predictive toxicology, and chemical risk analysis. They discuss QSAR principles and tools; novel descriptors, including extended topochemical atom indices and their application to quantitative structure-activity/property/toxicity studies, multivariate image analysis descriptors for QSAR as applied to trypanosomiasis, and conceptual density functional theory-based descriptors; the role of applicability domain of QSAR models; and more.
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This is a unique resource for professionals interested in the QSAR field. It includes exceptional discussions of topics related to drug design, predictive toxicology, risk assessment, antioxidants, nanomaterials, and it is an important resource on QSAR studies using CORAL software. It provides a unique perspective on the future of this field.
– Hemantkumar Chavan, Ph.D., University of Kansas Medical Center, Doody’s Review Service