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Hit Identi�cation: getting on the board<br />

Ways to identify a hit<br />

• Start with a natural substrate and<br />

make drug-like<br />

• Start with someone else’s hit<br />

(“patent bust”)<br />

• Design a denovo hit by Structurebased<br />

Design<br />

• <strong>Screening</strong> (HTS or Fragment<br />

methods)<br />

You have to test A LOT of compounds<br />

to �nd a drug

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