Drug Designing - Drug designing is another area of biotechnology research, which is being actively pursued. Several approaches are being used for this purpose and some of them will be briefly described in this section to give an elementary idea about this important and fascinating area of research.
However, all these approaches are based on an exercise where we first acquire knowledge about active site that needs to be attacked by the drug and then utilize this information to design a drug that will not only bind to the chosen site but will also possess all other properties required of a drug.
Therefore, drug designing will involve atleast three steps:
(i) Knowledge will have to be acquired about the site structure, upto the level of atomic resolutions, so that the accessible surface, which needs to be attacked, is known;