title: TDR Targets: a chemogenomics resource for neglected diseases.
abstract: The TDR Targets Database (http://tdrtargets.org) has been designed and developed as an online resource to facilitate the rapid identification and prioritization of molecular targets for drug development, focusing on pathogens responsible for neglected human diseases. The database integrates pathogen specific genomic information with functional data (e.g. expression, phylogeny, essentiality) for genes collected from various sources, including literature curation. This information can be browsed and queried using an extensive web interface with functionalities for combining, saving, exporting and sharing the query results. Target genes can be ranked and prioritized using numerical weights assigned to the criteria used for querying. In this report we describe recent updates to the TDR Targets database, including the addition of new genomes (specifically helminths), and integration of chemical structure, property and bioactivity information for biological ligands, drugs and inhibitors and cheminformatic tools for querying and visualizing these chemical data. These changes greatly facilitate exploration of linkages (both known and predicted) between genes and small molecules, yielding insight into whether particular proteins may be druggable, effectively allowing the navigation of chemical space in a genomics context.
authors: Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas, Universidad de San Martín, San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors: María P
authors: MP
authors: Magariños
authors: Santiago J
authors: SJ
authors: Carmona
authors: Gregory J
authors: GJ
authors: Crowther
authors: Stuart A
authors: SA
authors: Ralph
authors: David S
authors: DS
authors: Roos
authors: Dhanasekaran
authors: D
authors: Shanmugam
authors: Wesley C
authors: WC
authors: Van Voorhis
authors: Fernán
authors: F
authors: Agüero
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D055808:Drug Discovery; D049751:Genome, Helminth; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D058069:Neglected Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000469:parasitology; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000737:chemistry; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D011506:Proteins