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ReviewPharmaceutics2026

Integrative Computational Chemistry Approaches in Modern Drug Discovery: Advances in Docking, Pharmacophore Modeling, Molecular Dynamics, and Virtual Screening.

Ali Altharawi, Safar M Alqahtani

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ali AltharawiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6491-6611
Safar M AlqahtaniDepartment of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-4140-7320

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational chemistry has played a central role in early-stage drug discovery by accelerating target selection, hit identification, and lead optimization. This review summarizes recent developments in molecular docking, pharmacophore modeling, molecular dynamics (MD), and virtual screening (VS), with a focus on their application in practical drug discovery workflows. Advances in docking protocols, including consensus scoring, physics-based rescoring, and ensemble approaches, addressed the challenges of receptor flexibility. Both ligand-based and structure-based pharmacophore models facilitated scaffold hopping and guided library prioritization. MD simulations were used to assess binding pose stability, identify cryptic binding pockets, and characterize solvent interactions. These simulations also supported free-energy calculations using endpoint and alchemical methods. Large-scale VS campaigns employed curated compound libraries, often composed of make-on-demand molecules, and relied on high-performance computing or cloud infrastructure to screen up to 10

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free-energy calculationsmolecular dockingmolecular dynamicspharmacophore modelingstructure predictionvirtual screening

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PMID42198259
PMCPMC13210310

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