"Addresses the key topic in combinatorial synthesis--how to optimize the quality of a combinatorial library--by determining the usefulness of synthesized compunds, the reliability of biological assay results, and analyzing acadmic and industrial applications, real-world examples, and case studies of successful and unsuccessful technologies."

Integrated Drug Discovery Technologies provides a global overview of emerging drug development technologies by presenting and integrating new techniques from the disciplines of chemistry, biology, and computational sciences. It combines integration of contemporary mechanization with strategies in drug delivery. Topics include: functional genomics, microfabrication techniqes, integrated proteomics technologies, high throughput screening, and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy methods.

"Addresses the key topic in combinatorial synthesis--how to optimize the quality of a combinatorial library--by determining the usefulness of synthesized compunds, the reliability of biological assay results, and analyzing acadmic and industrial applications, real-world examples, and case studies of successful and unsuccessful technologies."

As the first of its kind, this up-to-the-minute reference provides a global overview of emerging drug discovery technologies by presenting and integrating new techniques from the disciplines of chemistry, biology, and computational sciences. Combining integration of contemporary mechanization with strategies in drug discovery, this volume features the most current advances that will afford better, faster, and more cost-effective means of design and screening. With over 40 world-renowned experts, Integrated Drug Discovery Technologies is an invaluable resource for organic, analytical, medicinal, pharmaceutical, computational, protein, and peptide chemists and biochemists; pharmacists; pharmacologists; molecular and cell biologists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.