Re: CCL:Modeling book suitable for med-chemists/overview

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:40, Joe M Leonard wrote:
 > Folks,
 >
 > Can anybody recommend a book (or multiple books) which would
 > give medicinal chemists a good overview of what modeling is
 > and what it might do for them?  I'm not interested in one
 > which describes the methodology - I've got these, and the
 > equation count or implementation details seem intimidating.
 > I'd prefer something which discusses the various areas modeling's
 > been applied to and how it might impact their work.
 >
 > I did a quick search of "book modeling medicinal" on CCL's
 > archives, and didn't get anything.  Any suggestions as to books
 > and/or places where I might find/search such things are welcome.
 > I would think somebody's surveyed this, either for a course or
 > for training/exposing med-chemists...
 >
 > Suggestions anybody?
 An additional book that might be useful is "Quantum Medicinal
 Chemistry", edited by Paolo Carloni and Frank Alber, WILEY-VCH Verlag
 GmbH & Co., 2003.
 The only reason I know of it is that I decided to check it out and see
 how quantum chemical methods are used in medicine.  There are lots of
 examples about things I have no idea about (i.e., my non-existent bio
 background doesn't help)[1].
 HTH,
 Matt Thompson
 [1] You know, a section entitled "The Case Study: Herpes Simplex Virus
 Type 1 Thymidine Kinase Substrates and Inhibitors" in a QChem book is
 quite a bit different than what I'm used to.
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