Wei said that the latest findings were an important step towards developing effective treatment for drug addiction, and that her team would continue working towards that end.
"Treatment would benefit not only the people suffering from addiction but also their relatives and friends," she said.
"However, we still have a long way to go in terms of clinical application, and we will work harder towards that," she added.
The results of the study, launched in 2005 with support from the Ministry of Science and Technology, have been published in Plos Computational Biology, an official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology.
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