Drug design, also known as rational drug design, is the inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target. Drug design defines the design of molecules that are complementary in shape and charge to the bimolecular target with which they interact and therefore will bind to it.
Role of Bioinformatics in Drug designing. Bioinformatics plays an important role in the design of new drug compounds. Rational Drug Design (RDD). Rational drug design is a process used in the biopharmaceutical industry to discover and develop new drug compounds.
Rational Drug Design. Traditional drug discovery (also referred to as forward pharmacology) is a trial-and-error based method of drug discovery, in which a chemical compound is tested with cultured cells or animals, and then applied to humans.