title: Drugs, their targets and the nature and number of drug targets.
abstract: What is a drug target? And how many such targets are there? Here, we consider the nature of drug targets, and by classifying known drug substances on the basis of the discussed principles we provide an estimation of the total number of current drug targets.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pharmazie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 06120 Halle, Germany. peter.imming@pharmazie.uni-halle.de
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Imming
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sinning
authors.forename: Achim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000145:classification*; D010600:Pharmacology
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations