Bioinformatic approaches to drug repositioning

Repositioning existing drugs for new therapeutic uses is an efficient approach to drug discovery. However, most successful repositioning cases to date have been serendipitous; the goal of my thesis was to use computational methods to rationally discover drug repositioning candidates. I first vir...

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Main Author: Li, Yvonne Yiyuan
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/39934