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Molecular Modeling: Basic Principles and Applications

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This book describes what is essentially docking calculations in the context of the Accerlys software. The text is very qualitative and does not provide enough instruction to do any "molecular modeling". It seems to be more guidlines for various software packages sold by Accerlys.

Well, I had both 2nd and 3rd edition of this book and I think that this is a good introduction to molecular modeling. If you are searching for a cook book, leave this aside. Also, if you already have nice experience in the field, this would be a dull reading material for you. But, if you are a hard core bench chemist wondering how they do it with those computers and what the heck can they actually do or you are a novice wanting to get an insight to molecular modeling, this is a nice book for you. Lots of references (that were fresh when the book was issued), easy reading, nice style makes this book very useful as some basic molecular modeling course material.
Not so good things: it would be nice if there are more case studies, and most useful would be those using tools and things available to larger academic (read: with lower budget) auditorium, like students.
Nevertheless, I'll go for a 4 stars, this is a good book.