What is it about?
This paper describes the repositioning of known drugs using computational methods. We used ligand and sctructure based virtual screening approaches. This furnished us the identification of 7 drugs approved for other therapies which could have potential to also treat COVID-19.
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Why is it important?
Finding drug-based therapies to treat COVID-19 would increase the success of preventing symptoms, reduce the number of deaths, and combating this pandemic that represents a global health issue.
Perspectives
I hope that the drugs revealed in this paper are soon to be effective in experimental assays which are ongoing. Also that the findings presented here produce a significant impact in drug design subjects, as well as related science fields, which has been striving to aid the world from this harmful pandemic.
Guilherme Martins Silva
Harvard Medical School
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This page is a summary of: Identification of known drugs as potential SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors using ligand- and structure-based virtual screening, Future Medicinal Chemistry, June 2021, Future Science,
DOI: 10.4155/fmc-2021-0025.
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