by screening tens of thousands of samples taken from anywhere and everywhere (trenches in the depths of the sea near Japan, etc.), in an automated fashion or otherwise
by using computational simulations (like DFT) to determine the types of molecules that demonstrate desired affinities, and synthesizing
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