Abstract
Objective: In this rewiev, ıt’s aimed to view the Molcular Dynamics and Molecular Mechanics methods to use in Rational Drug Design, research the basics, exhibit the advantages and disadvantages of these methods.
Result and Discussion: The discovery of drug active substance is the main research interest of the Pharmaceuthical Chemistry. Computer Aided Drug Design Methods are used in the discovery of new drug active substances are the methods attract attention. Molecular Dynamics is the computituonal simulation method to predict the development of the system that molecules and atoms interact together over time. The basic idea is to make it possible to predict the biological activity that may occur by observing the time dependent or time independent microscopic behavior of molecules. Since 1970’s it’s been widely used in studies of the dynamic and structural properties of macromolecules such as proteins & nucleic acids. Molecular Mechanics is the method of calculating the intramolecular and intermolecular energies of the system by creating force fields by using classical mechanical methods to model molecular systems. The discovery of new drug is challenging, time consuming and expensive process. These studies should be conducted in order to make this process easier, cheaper, to spend less time and effort.