EUREKA PLANT DRUG SOFTWARE
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN research network Eureka has developed a computerised screening process that will help pharmaceutical companies assess thousands of plants for a potentially lucrative source of therapeutic compounds. At present, researchers trawl through plant samples looking for a useful species, but Eureka's E! 2314 O'SCREEN system reverses this process. Scientists instead decide what might be a useful molecular structure, using genomics or other reasoning and then search for a plant source using existing databases of species and their ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.