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An idiot’s guide to lead optimisation for proteins


Or, understanding the Cradle-1 pipeline. Lead optimisation is the step in drug design where you take a molecule that sort of works and try to make it actually work, and it’s arguably the step where most real-world design campaigns succeed or die.

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