virtual screening service

Despite the expansion in high-throughput screening, finding new drugs is still an expensive and time-consuming business. Virtual screening can increase drug discovery productivity by reducing the time and expense of identifying suitable development candidates. Thousands of potential hit compounds can be identified by virtual screening in a fraction of the time of high-throughput screening methods.

The SIDR Virtual Screening Service (VSS) offers companies ready and affordable access to a customized drug discovery service. This covers:

• database creation
• virtual screening
• druggability filtering
• and molecular docking

Novel hit compounds can be found against selected targets, or existing compounds can be screened for new activities (“repurposing”).

For more information, e-mail sidr@strath.ac.uk

For more technical information, go to the Strathclyde Drug Discovery Portal website.