{"id":9038,"date":"2017-08-14T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/?p=9038"},"modified":"2018-12-04T11:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:45:08","slug":"the-machines-are-learning-to-develop-new-targeted-drug-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/the-machines-are-learning-to-develop-new-targeted-drug-therapies\/","title":{"rendered":"The machines are learning to develop new targeted drug therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From anti-cancer to antibiotic, high throughput screening is a powerful method of drug discovery. Researchers identify a target protein and test tens if not hundreds of thousands of chemicals for their ability to inhibit its function in the lab setting. Then, they whittle the chemical pool to a handful of \u201chits\u201d that serve as chemical precursors to safe, effective drugs.<\/p>\n<p>But these screens are cost-, time- and labor-intensive. What if there were a way to screen these molecules, or even more molecules, at a lower cost but just as accurately?<\/p>\n<p>Enter the machines, and virtual screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From anti-cancer to antibiotic, high throughput screening is a powerful method of drug discovery. Researchers identify a target protein and test tens if not hundreds of thousands of chemicals for their ability to inhibit its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9039,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9038\/revisions\/9039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}