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DrugMap Central: an on-line query and visualization tool to facilitate drug repositioning studies
Author(s) -
Changhe Fu,
Guangxu Jin,
Junfeng Gao,
Rui Zhu,
Efren Ballesteros-villagrana,
Stephen T.C. Wong
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt279
Subject(s) - computer science , drug , drug repositioning , visualization , information retrieval , food and drug administration , data science , data mining , risk analysis (engineering) , pharmacology , medicine
Systematic studies of drug repositioning require the integration of multi-level drug data, including basic chemical information (such as SMILES), drug targets, target-related signaling pathways, clinical trial information and Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approval information, to predict new potential indications of existing drugs. Currently available databases, however, lack query support for multi-level drug information and thus are not designed to support drug repositioning studies. DrugMap Central (DMC), an online tool, is developed to help fill the gap. DMC enables the users to integrate, query, visualize, interrogate, and download multi-level data of known drugs or compounds quickly for drug repositioning studies all within one system.

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