Helminth initiative for drug discovery - Report of the informal consultation, genomics and emerging drug discovery technologies

Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Volumn 2, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Berriman, Matthew ^a   Lustigman, Sara ^b   McCarter, James P ^c,d  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^c Divergence Inc   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cestode; Comparative genomics; Functional genomics; Microarray; Nematode; Proteomics; RNA interference; Trematode

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIFILARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; DRUG RESEARCH; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FILARIASIS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

EID: 35449004109     PISSN: 17460441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17460441.2.S1.S83     Document Type: Article

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