Schizophrenia is a devastating mental disorder that has a large impact on the quality of life for those who are afflicted and is very costly for families and society.[1] Although the etiology of schizophrenia is still unknown and no cure has yet been found, it is treatable, and pharmacological therapy often produces satisfactory results. Among the various antipsychotic drugs in use, clozapine is widely recognized as one of the most clinically effective agents, even if it elicits significant side effects such as metabolic disorders and agranulocytosis. Clozapine and the closely related compound olanzapine are good examples of drugs with a complex multi-receptor profile; [2] they have affinities toward serotonin, dopamine, a adrenergic, muscarinic, and histamine receptors, among others.Experimental evidence suggests that a complex binding profile is linked to the clinical efficacy of antipsychotic drugs, and indeed, some of the latest efforts in the development of novel antipsychotic drugs [3] are aimed at obtaining compounds with clozapine-like binding affinities for a certain number of receptors: D 2 , D 3 , 5-HT 2A , 5-HT 2C , 5-HT 6 . Unfortunately, our current understanding of which receptors are relevant for the clinical efficacy of antipsychotic agents is based only on the study of a handful of drugs. At this stage, a clear discrimination between clinically useful receptors and those responsible for adverse effects is not possible, as this would require a more thorough understanding of subtle modulating effects, and this is still obscure. Even if the ideal multi-receptor binding profile was known, the problem of how to obtain ligands with such binding specificity would still remain open. A good starting point is to improve our understanding of the structural features associated with binding profiles, thus leading to clinically useful drugs.In this work, we made use of the recently reported structure of the human b 2 adrenergic receptor as a template to build models for a set of receptors that are putatively important for the pharmacological properties of antipsychotic drugs. The aim of this study is to identify characteristics of the complexes of such receptors with clozapine and olanzapine that can explain the excellent clinical behavior of these two drugs. Remarkably, docking studies with homology models based on the new template reveal a binding complex that is different from previously reported complexes for clozapine-like ligands. [4,5] In the first step, we studied the binding affinities of both olanzapine and clozapine for all the receptors in order to identify their common binding profile and the structural features associated with this profile. We then studied the structural differences between the drug-receptor complexes for both antipsychotic drugs that could be responsible for the observed differences in their pharmacological behavior.For this, structural models for a set of 14 receptors that are potentially involved in the pharmacological profile of antipsychotic drugs (Table 1) were generated b...