[Fwd: New Web tool may speed drug discovery]

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...

Eric



> 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
>
>
> [1] http://www.gopubmed.org/
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: New Web tool may speed drug discovery
> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:15 -0400
> From: Steve Bratt <steve@w3.org>
> To: ivan@w3.org, t-and-s@w3.org, w3t-pr@w3.org
>
> 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
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> "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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