Multiple choice

Designing a drug molecule atom by atom against a receptor or target is known as

  1. denovo

  2. QSAR

  3. pharmacophore mapping

  4. docking

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Explanation

De novo drug design involves building drug molecules atom-by-atom or from fragments to fit a specific receptor binding site, unlike docking which studies existing molecules or QSAR which uses statistical correlations.