Scientists Map All Possible Drug-Like Chemical Compounds: Library of Millions of Small, Carbon-Based Molecules Chemists Might Synthesize

Durham, NC - Drug developers may have a new tool to search for more effective medications and new materials. 

It's a computer algorithm that can model and catalogue the entire set of lightweight, carbon-containing molecules that chemists could feasibly create in a lab. For more click here.

This map shows regions of the small molecule universe that chemists have explored and the ones they haven't. (Credit: Virshup et. al. JACS, 2013.