What is the goal of virtual screening?

In a recent paper entitled "What has virtual screening ever done for drug discovery?", editorial board member David Clark discusses virtual screening achievements based on hits that made their way to the clinic. No less than seven very polarized sets of peer review comments proved the approach controversial, and one can bet that the question whether virtual screening aims at identifying preclinical hits or clinical candidates will continue to be debated among readers, as the article entered the top 20 most downloaded papers across the Expert Opinion series in August.

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