Todd Golub has worked on several algorithm fronts, and I would not be surprised if they developed some sort of drug/agent indexing system in support of their chemical genomics initiative.
Perhaps we could ask Todd or Jill Mesirov to describe th etechnology in more detail...
Anybody has more information on this, and whether it
can/could/should/may/might connect to Semantic Web tools?
An analogy I have for something in the same direction is the GoPubMed
project from the University of Dresden[1] which relies on ontologies to
improve the results produced by PubMed...
Ivan
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Subject: New Web tool may speed drug discovery
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:15 -0400
Hi Ivan,
The linked (I hope) article was on the front page of today's Boston
Globe. I was hoping it might be about HCLS IG work. I don't think so.
Could you find out more about the underlying technologies?
It would be cool if the IG could have some at least preliminary results
that would garner such nice publicty...
Steve
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The following appeared on Boston.com:
Headline: New Web tool may speed drug discovery
Date: September 29, 2006
"Local scientists have created what they hope will become the Google
of drug discovery: a free, Web-based search engine that quickly finds
potential new compounds to treat particular diseases."
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