High-throughput screening of compounds (chemicals) is an essential part of drug discovery, involving thousands to millions of compounds, with the purpose of identifying candidate hits.
However, we made sure that our system is as universal as possible and can hold millions of compounds as well.
More specifically, "chemical patents can include millions of compounds," added Meg Jensen, Neurocrine's lawyer.
Drug companies typically screen millions of compounds as potential drug candidates.
It turns out that mankind had, at this point, made tens of millions of compounds.
Using this approach, we explored millions of compounds in silico and utilized convergent syntheses.
Companies need to make hard choices about which of the millions of compounds and targets they should pursue.
DuPont developed its product through painstaking research, systematically generating and screening millions of compounds for the desired effect.
Mr. Carr's company, Amersham, produces sophisticated equipment used to help drug-company chemists screen millions of compounds for a potential reaction that could halt disease.
In 1985, American Cyanamid won a patent that "covered millions of compounds, and our product is just one of them," Ms. Jensen said.
"You are probably going to have to screen millions of compounds and you can't screen millions of infected mice," Ausubel said.
