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Molecular Matchmaking for Drug Discovery

June 5, 2012

Computational drug discovery allows researchers to target a small group of possible molecules for therapeutic use, saving significant time and money. In the February 2012 edition of the Journal of Structural Biology, University of Texas at Austin researcher Chandrajit Bajaj reported on advances in image reconstruction that allow his group to detect the secondary structures of proteins from single particle cryo-electron microscopy. Full Story

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University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

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