Wanwan Shi, Xuegong Chen and Lei Deng* Pages 3059 - 3068 ( 10 )
Computational drug repositioning is an efficient approach towards discovering new indications for existing drugs. In recent years, with the accumulation of online health-related information and the extensive use of biomedical databases, computational drug repositioning approaches have achieved significant progress in drug discovery. In this review, we summarize recent advancements in drug repositioning. Firstly, we explicitly demonstrated the available data source information which is conducive to identifying novel indications. Furthermore, we provide a summary of the commonly used computing approaches. For each method, we briefly described techniques, case studies, and evaluation criteria. Finally, we discuss the limitations of the existing computing approaches.
Computational drug repositioning, drug-disease association, indication, biological network, machine learning, sparse matrix, text mining.
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha