Article: New compound library to speed drug discovery.

2003 SEP 23 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Brent Stockwell leads a research team that has assembled a library of approximately 2000 tiny molecules (or compounds) that have demonstrated some sort of biological activity. What sets this library apart from similar collections is that Stockwell's group also devised an algorithm that annotates everything each compound can do, incorporating up to 12,000 different functions per molecule.

Essentially, said Stockwell, "It's an annotation strategy that captures all of the information associated with the compound," which in turn gives scientists greater and more immediate insight into the molecules they study.

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