This document discusses structure based drug design. It describes how drug design uses knowledge of biological targets to find new medications. Structure based drug design uses information about the 3D structure of protein targets to design ligands that bind to them. The main methods described are ligand-based drug design through database searching, and receptor-based drug design which builds ligands for a receptor. Molecular docking is also discussed as a key technique to predict how ligands bind to protein targets and identify potential drug candidates.