Statins, widely used cardiovascular drugs that lower cholesterol by inhibiting HMG-CoA
reductase, have been increasingly recognized for their potential anticancer properties. This …

Drug repurposing has gained the attention of many in the recent years. The practice of
repurposing existing drugs for new therapeutic uses helps to simplify the drug discovery …

Drug repurposing is a strategy for identifying new uses of approved or investigational drugs
that are outside the scope of the original medical indication. Even though many repurposed …

Background Drug repurposing plays a significant role in providing effective treatments for
certain diseases faster and more cost-effectively. Successful repurposing cases are mostly …

In recent years and due to COVID-19 pandemic, drug repurposing or repositioning has been
placed in the spotlight. Giving new therapeutic uses to already existing drugs, this discipline …

There is a large number of online documents data sources available nowadays. The lack of
structure and the differences between formats are the main difficulties to automatically …

Prediction of protein-ligand interaction is necessary for drug design, gene regulatory
networks investigation, and chemical probes detection. The existing methods commonly …

Machine learning (ML) is revolutionizing drug repurposing, offering a more efficient, cost‐
effective approach to drug discovery by identifying new therapeutic uses for existing drugs …

Rare diseases are a group of uncommon diseases in the world population. To date, about
7000 rare diseases have been documented. However, most of them do not have a known …

Motivation Drug repurposing speeds up the development of new treatments, being less
costly, risky, and time consuming than de novo drug discovery. There are numerous …