Drug Repurposing for Cancer Therapy: From Man to Molecules to Man

Univ Of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC

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Abstract

Abstract This project aims to develop and implement multiple but integrated computational tools for drug repurposing by exploiting complimentary big data streams, i.e., unstructured texts (social media networks, published biomedical literature, and electronic health records), electronic databases of chemical-biological interactions and pathways, and laboratory data (biological screening of chemical libraries). We expect that tools to be developed in this project will be useful for repurposing observational textual data for research projects (addressing the second challenge of the underlying RFA). In addition, the envisioned translation of this data into a format amenable to quantitative modeling of drug effects will also enable integration of textual and laboratory data to create minable metadata (cf. the third challenge).