Incorporation of NMR into the Drug Discovery Process

In the following detailed discussion of the application of NMR techniques to drug discovery, a short description for hit finding, hit validation, and hit (lead) optimization is given. In addition, the corresponding requirements for the NMR experiments and the resulting implementations are described. Only typical experiments are given explicitly, but other techniques are sunamarized in Table 2. 

E-screening Hit optimization None None ligand Yes No No 

The classification of drug discovery into different phases is to a certain extent artificial - the different phases overlap or can be applied simultaneously - but the general outline indicated here shows that more complex NMR techniques are needed when the drug discovery process is more advanced. 

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