“…Among them, the structure-based approach, also known as the structure-based drug design (SBDD), offers several advantages, including rapid target identification/validation/lead identification, and efficient lead optimization, by focusing on drug-binding sites ( Anderson, 2003 ; Kalyaanamoorthy and Chen, 2011 ). Moreover, by integrating computer-aided drug design techniques such as molecular docking-based virtual screening ( Maia et al, 2020 ), molecular dynamics simulations ( De Vivo et al, 2016 ), and machine learning ( Bajorath, 2022 ), the SBDD workflow can be further accelerated ( Sabe et al, 2021 ). Including computational tools, the specific processes and techniques requested in each step of the SBDD workflow are also described in Figure 1 .…”