Analogue-based Drug Discovery
IUPAC / Fischer, János / Ganellin, C. Robin
The easiest way to create a new drug is to modify an existing one. These so-called drug analogs account for about half of all "new" drugs and are of tremendous importance both for medical and financial reasons. In addition, drug analogs can be modeled on naturally occurring bioactive substances that do not make good drugs on their own, thereby considerably increasing the therapeutic range of pharmaceutical medicine.
This first authoritative an...