What is Crystallographic Screening? Crystallographic screening is a method used to detect ligands that bind to a target protein. What makes this metod special is that it also provides structural data about the binding location and interactions between the ligand and protein. The crystal itself has the protein molecules lined up in an ordered array with large solvent channels so that ligands can soak in and bind to sites on the crystallized protein. This method is exceptionall

As fragment screening continues to grow in popularity and establish itself as an integral part of discovery research, the emergence of more and more compounds added to fragment library collections seems to grow exponentially. What once was an efficient means of effectively screening a target to provide information about its drugability or identify the unique building blocks of a clinical candidate, has now become diluted in a pool of tens or hundreds of thousands of compounds