Certain drug targets have been deemed undruggable because of the difficulty in finding pharmacologically useful inhibitors. Now, two teams have developed exciting technologies for the creation of diverse collections of macrocyclic molecules and have demonstrated their usefulness for discovering macrocyclic inhibitors.
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Iqbal, E.S., Hartman, M.C.T. Shaping molecular diversity. Nature Chem 10, 692–694 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-018-0095-7
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