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Friday, July 09, 2004Why hasn't anyone tried this before? It's only recently that the technologies have been available to do such data-intensive screening. Of course, all major pharmaceutical firms already use robotics for high-speed scouting of potential drug treatments. It's a relatively straightforward process to analyze the interactions of a single chemical and a single protein. By contrast, searching out unexpected interactions among 2,000 disparate compounds yields nearly 2 million possibilities for any one disease. Three- and four-part combinations, which Borisy hopes to try, will produce between 1 billion and 600 billion possible combinations. posted by Sydney on 7/09/2004 07:06:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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