“…The inhibitors of NS5B are categorized as nucleosides (NIs) and non-nucleosides (NNIs) (Ni and Wagman, 2004). Several inhibitors with different scaffolds have appeared in the literature, including benzimidazole (Beaulieu et al, 2004;Hirashima et al, 2007;Ishida et al, 2006), indole (Harper et al, 2005;Stansfield et al, 2009), thiophene (Louise-May et al, 2007), acridone derivatives (Stankiewicz-Drogon et al, 2008), benzothiadiazine Donner et al, 2008;Krueger et al, 2006;Pratt et al, 2005;Rockway et al, 2006), and so on. However, all these studies focused on how to synthesize new structures and measure their inhibition activity, and this process is extremely time-consuming and expensive.…”