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Computing and cone snail create new painkiller

Submitted by amjjbonvin on Thu, 2012-04-19 09:03

 

Read in this week ISGTW a feature article on how grid computing and NMR are used to understand how a useful painkiller can be re-engineered from a small protein, called XEP-018, discovered within the toxin of the paralyzing hypodermic-like sting of the Conus consors.

http://www.isgtw.org/feature/computing-and-cone-snail-creates-new-painkiller

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