Type 2 diabetes has rapidly reached an epidemic proportion becoming a major threat to global public health.PPAR agonists have emerged as a leading class of oral antidiabetic drugs. We report a structure biologyanalysis of novel indole-based PPAR agonists to explain the structure-activity relationships and present acritical analysis of reasons for change in selectivity with change in the orientation of the same scaffolds.The results would be helpful in designing novel PPAR agonists.