Computational drug repositioning based on side-effects mined from social media

Drug repositioning methods attempt to identify novel therapeutic indications for marketed drugs. Strategies include the use of side-effects to assign new disease indications, based on the premise that both therapeutic effects and side-effects are measurable physiological changes resulting from drug...

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Main Authors: Timothy Nugent, Vassilis Plachouras, Jochen L. Leidner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-02-01
Series:PeerJ Computer Science
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/cs-46.pdf