ChemGenex: Broad-brush chemical genomics

One way to advance a technology is to find new applications for it. ChemGenex Therapeutics Inc. has taken this approach with its chemical genomics technologies to search for chemical families that haven't been looked at in the proper light.

The company starts by searching public and internal sources for interesting chemical structures with potential in cancer. It then applies chemical genomics - studying the effects of chemicals on gene expression - to see whether the molecules affect previously unknown targets. ...