Drug-like molecules, generation

However, the most important contribution of chemical biology is in the area of generating drug-like molecules. This can simply be summarized by finding better compounds faster . Compounds that are not only high affinity binders of bio-macromolecules but compounds that can also be optimized into drugs with reasonable effort. 

There is currently a significant shift observable from linear to convergent strategies as mentioned in Chapter 1.1, probably due to the fact that convergent approaches are more likely than linear ones to generate small drug-like molecules. 

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