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Project: Compendium of targets of the top 100 commercially important drugs

Number: 2004-025-1-700
Start: 01 September 2004
End: 24 January 2007
Project of
Objective

To provide a compendium of the biological targets of the top 100 drugs.

Description

A recent article (Fixing the Drugs Pipeline, The Economist March 11 2004) indicated that the 100 best selling target 43 gene products. However there does not appear to be a resource where compiled target information is readily available in a single source. The intention is to provide a resource containing the following information on commercially important drug targets: type of target (enzyme, receptor etc); brief description of relevance to disease treated; reference to knockout information, if available; reference to structural information, if available; listing of the marketed drugs that interact with the target along with potency and relevant selectivity information.

Progress
Dec 2006: project terminated - the project has been pre-empted by the publication of the DrugBank database, carrying all the information on Molecular Targets for Drugs.
> access the DrugBank <http://redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca/drugbank/>
>> review in Chem Int. May/June 2007