Repurposed drugs present new strategy for treating COVID-19

(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) A joint research group from KAIST and Institut Pasteur Korea has identified repurposed drugs for COVID-19 treatment through virtual screening and cell-based assays. The research team suggested the strategy for virtual screening with greatly reduced false positives by incorporating pre-docking filtering based on shape similarity and post-docking filtering based on interaction similarity. This strategy will help develop therapeutic medications for COVID-19 and other antiviral diseases more rapidly.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 8, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news