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Drug Repurposing For Covid-19 Using Molecular Docking Tools, Deniz Yasar Oztas
Drug Repurposing For Covid-19 Using Molecular Docking Tools, Deniz Yasar Oztas
Computational and Data Sciences (MS) Theses
Since severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is highly contagious and mortal, finding a treatment is time critical. Drug repurposing is probably the quickest and safest approach in our arsenal. However, testing every drug in a brute force manner would require a lot of resources, and a more sophisticated method is required to filter possible candidates. Since several molecules have already been shown to be effective against SARS-CoV-2 in wet-lab experiments, choosing drugs with similar characteristics would increase our chances of success. In this study, we compare the molecular docking results of FDA-approved drugs from the ZINC database against …