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New drug discovery remains an urgent yet inefficient discipline. The need for new therapies has never been greater, with an agingpopulation worldwide and new diseases like AIDS highlighting the limitations of our current medical armamentarium. Yet despite the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars per year in medical research in the United States alone, only about two dozen new chemical entities are introduced into medicine each year. Research and development of a new drug takes 10–20 years and well over $200 million, and can fail at any step along the way. Clearly we need to be as efficient and effective as possible in discovering and develo** new drugs.
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Gund, P. (1991). The integration of chemical and biological information. In: Collier, H.R. (eds) Chemical Information 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85872-7_18
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