Chemoinformatics approaches for traditional chinese medicine research and case application in anticancer drug discovery

Current Drug Discovery Technologies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-31

  Li, Xue Juan ^a   Kong, De Xin ^a   Zhang, Hong Yu ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemoinformatics; Drug design; Inverse docking; Molecular similarity; TCM databases; Traditional chinese medicine; Virtual screening

Indexed keywords

1 HYDROXY 3,6,7 TRIMETHOXY XANTHONE; 3 BUTYLPHTHALIDE; 9 CIS,12 CIS LINOLEIC ACID; ACRONINE; AMYGDALIN; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; APIGENIN; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARTESUNATE; BAICALIN; BERGENIN; CAFFEIC ACID PHENETHYL ESTER; CAMPTOTHECIN; CANTHARIDIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; CHINESE DRUG; COUMARIN; DEMECOLCINE; ELLIPTICINE; GENIPIN; HOMOHARRINGTONINE; MILTIRONE; NATURAL PRODUCT; NOOTROPIC AGENT; TETRAMETHYLPYRAZINE; TETRANDRINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHINESE HERB; CHINESE MEDICINE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG SCREENING ASSAYS, ANTITUMOR; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HUMANS; INFORMATICS; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77951737265     PISSN: 15701638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157016310791162749     Document Type: Article

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