Article: Prediction of potential drug targets based on simple sequence properties.(Research article)

Authors: Qingliang Li [1,2]; Luhua Lai (corresponding author) [1,2]

Background

Although great efforts have been exerted on drug research and development during the past decades, only about 500 drug targets have been identified for clinically using drugs to date[1]. Recently, this number has been revised to be 324[2], which indicates that current pharmaceutical industry actually relies on only a small pool of drug targets, compared to the large number of proteins available in human genome[3]. On the other hand, a significant number of drugs failed in the pipeline of modern drug discovery can be attributed to the wrong drug target definition at the ...

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