drug discovery books

	Structure-Based Drug Discovery: An Overview (RSC Biomolecular Sciences)
	By: Roderick E. Hubbard ISBN: 0854043519 Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry Release Date: 25 April, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 923120
	Drug Discovery and Development. Two Volume Set.
	By: Mukund S. Chorghade ISBN: 0471398462 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Release Date: 05 October, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 980234
	Methods in Microarray Normalization (Drug Discovery Series)
	By: Phillip Stafford ISBN: 1420052780 Publisher: CRC Release Date: 31 January, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 1059802
	In Vivo MR Techniques in Drug Discovery and Development
	By: Nicolau Beckmann ISBN: 0849330262 Publisher: Informa Healthcare Release Date: 02 June, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 1013207
	Handbook of Assay Development in Drug Discovery
	By: Lisa K. Minor ISBN: 1574444719 Publisher: CRC Release Date: 20 January, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 118315	This authors of this book represent a who's who of the industry. To be as advanced as possible, Dr. Minor has had individual chapters written by experts from equipment vendors (GE, PerkinElmer); pharmaceutical companies (J&J, Merck, Lilly), government (NIH) and more. These individual chapters describe in practical terms what these organizations have developed. <br /> <br />The book is meant as a general guidebook that one will take to the workbench. It includes descriptions of methods, exact protocols used to perform such methods, and troubleshooting tools. These techniques have been led by the need to screen targets more rapidly and with more efficiency than in previous years and by advances in chemistry allowing parallel or multiplex chemical synthesis to provide more compounds for screening. <br /> <br />The book should be of interest to those in discovery research as well as those in the academic world who wish to know what has become available in recent years.
	The Role of Microtubules in Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Oncology (Cancer Drug Discovery and Development)
	By: Antonio Tito Fojo ISBN: 1588292940 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 02 May, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 1064882
	Drug Discovery and Evaluation
	By: Hans G. Vogel ISBN: 3540423966 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 05 August, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 1063889	I have the 2nd edition of this reference, obtained in 2003. Springer-Verlag and their printers have done a very nice job of making this large (1400-page) book, and they provide a very readable typeset. The text is laid out in numerous short application notes describing different pharmacological assays, and these include sections on the study's purpose, a paragraph on the procedure, another on the approach to interpreting results, a fourth cursory section discussing modifications of the method by others, and a usually generous list of references after that. A big plus, I think, is the inclusion of a CD-ROM that contains an Adobe PDF of the entire text. This is a better medium in which to do searching, especially since the hardcover's printed lookup is set up in such extensive run-in indexing, with numerous cascades of indented em-dashes on subentries that it is really kind of annoying. The Contents list, grouped by organ systems, is a lot more useful. <br /> <br />It's still a difficult call making a decision to recommend a text like this - if you are actively doing pharmacological research, your sources are probably more current at your bench, or in recent journals and meetings. But, the very readable structure, many references, and a useful CD-ROM, suggests Vogel's text as an appealing and well-assembled package for academic and group reference. <br /> The book is a wonderful addition to books on drug evaluation. I feel pharmacologists are getting very few books on this subject. This book can end up the search for such pharmacologists. It will surely boost the research in this field. I hope that this book should reach into hands of every pharmacologists. Whether he/she is a academician or researcher, this book will be a valuable addition to his/her personal library. Each institute conducting research or teaching in pharmacology should also have this book in the library.<p>Many thanks to the authors and publishers of this books.
	Drug Discovery and Development, Drug Discovery (Drug Discovery and Development)
	By: Mukund S. Chorghade ISBN: 0471398489 Publisher: Wiley-Interscience Release Date: 16 June, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 793538
	Handbook of Anticancer Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (Cancer Drug Discovery and Development) (Cancer Drug Discovery and Development)
	By: William D. Figg, Howard L. McLeod ISBN: 1588291774 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 26 March, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 970218
	Deoxynucleoside Analogs in Cancer Therapy (Cancer Drug Discovery and Development)
	By: Godefridus J Peters ISBN: 1588293270 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 01 September, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 1163780