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The rational way to discover a new drug is to understand the disease mechanism and identify a target molecule, mostly a protein and design an inhibitor or an activator for the same. Alternatively, one can make a disease model and screen the compounds randomly for their action. But these high throughput screening methods need large manpower (200-300) research scientists) and time (10-12 years), which increases the cost of new drug production substantially. A ...