This book documents the latest research, covering current and promising activities in four key areas: computational chemistry and chemoinformatics, High Throughput Screening (HTS), non-vertebrate model hosts and light and nano-based technologies.

Contributions by: Arnold Demain, Hattie Gresham, Eliora Ron, Leonor Amaral, Richard D Cannon, Karlett Parra, Richard Calderon, Kim Lewis, Dulal Panda, John F Kokai-Kun, Paul D Cotter, Artem Cherkasov, Andriy Luzhetskyy, Grover L Waldrop, Laura Cipolla, Sanjay M Jachak, Panagiotis Kastritsis, Kim Hammond-Kosack, Elaine Bignell, Jeff Coleman, Yiorgos Apidianakis, Astrid van der Sar, Lai Ren, Jake Strouse, Michael R Hamblin, Sean P Nair, Eric Bornstein, Josh Nosanchuk