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It is estimated that 85% of the human proteome is considered undruggable(1)—finding effective ligands (pharmaceuticals) to target these proteins is considered exceptionally hard, or impossible.
Here we pose that this may not be impossible! We examine what makes a protein “undruggable”, and present strategies which can be used against such targets.
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In this Q&A-style blog with Mihaela D. Smilova (postgraduate researcher at the Centre for Medicines Discovery at Oxford University), learn about some of the advantages of fragment-based drug design, which she recently used for a drug design methodology called “ensemble hotspot mapping.”
We recently hosted our 2021 Discovery Science Conference: High-performance data meets high-performance computing. Over the course of the two-day event, leading researchers discussed how drug discovery continues to evolve – with data-driven approaches answering more questions than ever about novel and improved active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Here are some of our key takeaways.