50 years ago, computers helped speed up drug discovery
Excerpt from the February 23, 1974 issue of Science News
Today, artificial intelligence can identify potential drug targets and develop medicines from scratch. But whether the approach can craft drugs that help patients remains to be seen.
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Cancer drugs by computer — Science News, February 23, 1974
Chemists often need to sort a large number of compounds according to whether or not they possess a given property.…