In-Silico Drug Discovery

- In-Silico is an expression used to mean “performed on computer or via computer simulation”. 

- In-Silico drug discovery process is thus the identification of the drug target molecule by employing bioinformatics tools.

- Drug target molecules generally include DNA, RNA and proteins such as receptors, enzymes etc.

- Bioinformatics is the application of computational technology (such as Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) to handle the rapidly growing repository of information related to molecular biology.