Computational approaches for drug discovery from medicinal plants in the era of data driven research

The significant scientific work on the development of bio-active compound databases, computational technologies, and the integration of Information Technology with Biotechnology has brought a revolution in the domain of drug discovery. These tools facilitate the medicinal plant-based in silico drug discovery, which has become the frontier of pharmacological science. In this review article, we elucidate the methodology of in silico drug discovery for the medicinal plants and present an outlook on recent tools and technologies. Further, we explore the multi-component, multi-target, and multi-pathway mechanism of the bio-active compounds with the help of Network Pharmacology, which enables us to create a topological network between drug, target, gene, pathway, and disease.