ICR showcases data mining tool for probe selection

Researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) published data Tuesday in Cell Chemical Biology concerning Probe Miner, an online resource using computation analysis that scores over 350,000 tool compounds based on their usefulness in targeting 2,200 human proteins.

Misunderstood chemical probes, such as those that are so broadly promiscuous that their use produces unreliable data, have been identified as a driver of irreproducible preclinical research...