A new automated design system could create drugs quicker and cheaper than is now possible, scientists say.
Testing new treatments can take years of laboratory tests and cost millions of pounds.
A statistical approach which builds on the model of an existing drug can analyse new data to speed up the work of chemists where drug molecules are steadily improved by successive cycles of design and selection.
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