Drug Development

Networking computers reduces time to help combat disease

Published in Drug Week, February 17th, 2006

In the quest to find cures for subtropical diseases that disable or kill millions of people each year, scientists are using Grid computing, the major driving force for new approaches towards collaborative large-scale science, to discover new drugs and better understand the diseases.

Currently drug discovery seeks compounds that can inhibit or kill invading parasites and infections, but there are potentially millions of candidate compounds. It can take 10 years to discover a drug and another 10 to get it approved.

Grid technology, in which the resources of many computers in a network are applied to a single problem at the same time, however, can...

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Source: Drug Week (2006-02-17)

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