Table 2
(continued)
S. No.De novo design
software or
programYear of
publication Concept of functionReceptor
(R)/Ligand
(L) based Reference
25 DycoBlock 1999 Force field and solvent accessible
surfaceR[58]26 LEA 2000 QSAR prediction based on 3D
descriptorsL[59]27 LigBuilder 2000 Empirical scoring R [60]
28 TOPAS 2000 Molecular similarity function L [61]
29 F-DycoBlock 2001 Force field and solvent accessible
surfaceR[62]30 ADAPT 2001 Based on weighted sum of dock score,
clogP, MM, number of rotatable
bonds and hydrogen bondsR[63]31 Pellegrini & field 2003 QSAR prediction based on target
specificR[64]32 SYNOPSIS 2003 Electrical dipole moment and
empirically derived HIV-RT scoringR[65]33 CoG 2004 Molecular similarity scoring L [66]
35 Nikitin 2005 Hydrogen bond, grid based
electrostatic interactionR[67]36 LEAD3D 2005 Molecular docking with independent
propertyR[68]37 Flux 2006 Stochastic searching with ligand-based
similarity scoringL[69, 70]38 GANDI 2008 Force field R and L [71]
39 COLIBREE 2008 Based on chemical advance template
search topological pharmacophore
similarityL[72]40 SQUIRReLnovo 2008 Shape and pharmacophoric features
based generationL[32]41 Hecht & Fogel 2009 GOLD fitness scoring L [73]
42 MED-hybridise 2009 MED sumo score R [74]
43 MEGA 2009 Multi objective fitness scoring R [75]
44 AutoGrow 2009 Molecular docking score R [76]
45 NovoFLAP 2010 Ligand-based scoring with structural
and pharmacophoric featuresL[34]46 PhDD 2010 Pharmacophore-based de novo design L [28]
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