Pharao
Pharao is a pharmacophore-based scoring method that
was developed to act as a virtual screening tool to retrieve molecules from different
compound libraries and to perform pharmacophore-based clustering. The method is
flexible so that it can also be used to guide the search for new molecules in de novo
design algorithms or in other computer-assisted applications within the field of drug
discovery. Pharao is an acronym for Pharmacophore Alignment and Optimization.