Bio Information Technologies Ltd.
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
The hunt for drugs that act on G-protein coupled receptors (GPCR) presents a unique challenge in drug discovery, because pharmaceutical researchers don't possess the three-dimensional structure of a single therapeutically relevant GPCR, crucial information that provides a starting point for understanding the function of a receptor, and then designing drugs that bind to it. The founders of Bio-IT have created a program that works at the atomic level to predict the three-dimensional structures of GPCRs. The model uses as inputs amino acid sequence information, geometric algorithms, and physicochemical factors.