Weill Cornell Team Develops Computational Tool to Better ID Cancer Drug Targets

Apr 30, 2015

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Researchers in the Institute for Computational Biomedicine at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed a computational tool for mining combined genomic, chemical, structural, and other datasets to predict new drug targets, identify novel cancer compounds, and find new uses for existing drugs.

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