RE: Computers may predict drugs’ side effects

Hi Joanne,

Thank you for sharing this topic with the group! For discussion, I am attaching the manuscript and a related review article. 

Generally, the prediction models work well in this problem domain (-- If not, the discipline of medicinal chemistry would not exist). 

The bottleneck is the availability of large scale data: chemical structure, drug target, protein-protein interaction, indications, know side effects, etc. 

As such, Open Linked Data might offer help!

Best regards,

Simon

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-----Original Message-----
From: Joanne Luciano [mailto:jluciano@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:02 AM
To: public-semweb-lifesci hcls
Subject: Computers may predict drugs’ side effects

FYI

I know some of you would be interested in this -- and maybe some of you know more details that can be shared?

http://articles.boston.com/2012-06-11/business/32177397_1_side-effects-adverse-drug-reactions-study-of-drug-development

Joanne


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