Re: QSAR - Were half of the current drugs discovered prior to 1930?

Dear all,

Thanks to Yvonne Martin's web link I did a quick search on Yahoo using the
words Skaggs + Bartfai. I compiled what I found in the attached MS Word
document, which I am re-sending to the list in case it may help for the
discussion.

Best regards,

Jordi Quintana

(See attached file: The Other Side of Drug Discovery.doc)

                                                                                                   
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Hi all,

I received the following e-mail and have been able to trace this only to a
talk given by Prof. Bartfai.
http://www.bio.com/newsfeatures/newsfeatures_features.jhtml?action=view&contentItem=49623739&Page=1

Does anyone have more information? Do you want to question this statement?

Yvonne
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    James B Summers
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Heard an interesting statement in a presentation yesterday. Have you ever
seen this statement or know the author:

? There are 10,300 medicines but they come only from 433 distinct
chemical entities half of which were discovered prior to 1930
          (ref: T. Bartfai, The Scripps Research Institute)