Combine chemical probe resources to optimize biomedical research, scientists urge

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191128172341.htm

In a 'special report' published today in the journal Future Medicinal Chemistry today (Thursday), scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, carried out the first comprehensive assessment of all the publicly available resources on chemical probes.

The report strongly recommends that researchers should avoid general search engines and vendor catalogue information and instead use two kinds of online resource -- expert reviews and computational Big Data approaches -- in order to make the best decisions about which chemical probes to use in biomedical research, and also to avoid poor selection of tools that can lead to incorrect conclusions.