Computational Method Points To New Uses, Unexpected Side Effects Of Already Existing Drugs
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 11:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists have developed and experimentally tested a technique to predict new target diseases for existing drugs. The researchers developed a computational method that compares how similar the structures of all known drugs are to the naturally occurring binding partners -- known as ligands -- of disease targets within the cell.
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