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New method will allow drugs to be developed faster
Last reviewed: 02.07.2025
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An international group of scientists from France, America and Russia have developed a new unique method for creating drugs that differs from those that exist today in its speed. Thanks to the new method of modeling interactions between proteins, it will be possible to speed up the process of developing vaccines and drugs, and biochemists will also have new potential for conducting research.
Now scientists are faced with the task of developing such drugs that would not cause side effects, would be completely absorbed by the body and destroy only unhealthy cells. For a cell, protein is the main building material, in one cell there are many interactions (hundreds of thousands), and the study of these processes will allow scientists to develop new methods of treating dangerous diseases, create new biological materials for the invention of drugs.
Specialists from different countries, under the leadership of Professor Dmitry Kozakov from Stony Brook University, were able to create and study a computer model that is capable of calculating structures formed during the interaction of two proteins several times faster (the new model is tens of times faster than similar systems that exist today).
According to scientists, laboratory studies are quite expensive, since they require reagents and expensive equipment. For small research groups, the best option is computer modeling. There are currently many computer systems that calculate the interaction between proteins, but, unfortunately, all existing systems are not able to calculate a large number of protein interactions in a short time. All algorithms currently used monitor configurations separately, without combining them, and the new method of Professor Kozakov's team allows analyzing all complexes simultaneously in a short time, and this allows accelerating the process up to 100 times without affecting the quality of the final result.
Using a computer model as a basis, specialists will be able not only to develop drugs faster, but also to significantly reduce their cost. The new method of computer modeling allows not only to calculate protein interactions, but also to analyze the structure of living organisms (both animals and humans). According to specialists, the new method will allow to develop effective drugs for HIV and oncological diseases, and in a short time it will be possible to prepare a sufficient number of drugs.
The scientists published an article with the results of their work in one of the scientific journals, in which the specialists described in detail a new method of computer modeling of protein interactions.
This work is not intended for commercial use, but is a fundamental study, so we can talk about the work done from the moment it appears in a scientific publication. Now the new algorithm is already used on the public ClusPro server as a new computing system and is available to everyone.
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