The assessment of efficient representation of drug features using deep learning for drug repositioning

Abstract Background De novo drug discovery is a time-consuming and expensive process. Nowadays, drug repositioning is utilized as a common strategy to discover a new drug indication for existing drugs. This strategy is mostly used in cases with a limited number of candidate pairs of drugs and diseas...

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Main Authors: Mahroo Moridi, Marzieh Ghadirinia, Ali Sharifi-Zarchi, Fatemeh Zare-Mirakabad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-019-3165-y