Ajinomoto, Hitachi to tie up in drug development+.TOKYO, Nov. 29 Kyodo Ajinomoto Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (味の素株式会社 Co. and Hitachi Hitachi (hētä`chē), city (1990 pop. 202,141), Ibaraki prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on the Kashima Sea. The city is a leading producer of Japan's electrical equipment. Ltd. are negotiating to jointly develop new drugs using their respective skills in biotechnology and information technology, sources familiar with the deal said Wednesday. They are targeting development of drugs that have few side effects Side effects Effects of a proposed project on other parts of the firm. and are effective on patients with certain types of genes, the sources said. Ajinomoto, Japan's leading seasoning maker, plans to ask Hitachi to analyze human genes and protein functions to help it expand its pharmaceutical operations, the sources said. They expect their talks to lead them to tie up in the bioinformatics Using computers in biological research to analyze or predict the composition of molecules (nucleic acids, proteins, etc.) and model biologic systems. Bioinformatics is most prominent in the Human Genome Project, which has recorded the three billion chemical base pairs that make up the area, the sources said. |
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