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Tuesday, March 12, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031202t.htm Distributed-Computing Project Identifies 12,000 Compounds That May Block Anthrax Infection KATE GALBRAITH University of Oxford researchers who used distributed-computing software to identify molecules that could potentially treat anthrax submitted their results last week to the U.S. and British governments. Graham Richards, who is the chairman of Oxford's chemistry department and also the head of the research team, said: "What we have produced, out of our 3.5 billion tries, are 300,000 compounds that would bind in the correct site on the [anthrax] protein. About 12,000 look as though they would bind rather well, so that this would be a starting point to develop something which would block anthrax getting into cells."...
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