Computational Drug Repositioning for Cancer Therapeutics

Title:Computational Drug Repositioning for Cancer Therapeutics

Volume: 15 Issue: 8

Author(s): Mingkun Jiao, Gang Liu, Yu Xue and Chunyong Ding

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Keywords: Anticancer drugs, Cancer therapeutics, Computational drug repositioning, Drug discovery, Drug repositioning, Drug repurposing.

Abstract: Due to ever-increasing failure rates, high cost, unsatisfactory safety profile, and limited efficacy associated with anticancer drug development, the repositioning of established non-cancer drugs for new oncology indications has emerged as an increasingly attractive approach to addressing the unmet cancer-related medical need. With the rapid development of bioinformatics, chemoinformatics as well as high-performance computing, drug repositioning is becoming more intentional than ever, and a significant surge of computational approaches has been well established to greatly facilitate drug repositioning for cancer treatment. In this review, we provide a brief overview of recent advances in the computational drug repositioning for anticancer applications with a specific emphasis on repositioning of non-cancer drugs by use of various computational approaches.

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Jiao Mingkun, Liu Gang, Xue Yu and Ding Chunyong, Computational Drug Repositioning for Cancer Therapeutics, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 2015; 15 (8) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1568026615666150302105831