Predict drug permeability to blood-brain-barrier from clinical phenotypes: drug side effects and drug indications.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Blood-Brain-Barrier (BBB) is a rigorous permeability barrier for maintaining homeostasis of Central Nervous System (CNS). Determination of compound's permeability to BBB is prerequisite in CNS drug discovery. Existing computational methods usually predict drug BBB permeability from chemical structure and they generally apply to small compounds passing BBB through passive diffusion. As abundant information on drug side effects and indications has been recorded over time through extensive clinical usage, we aim to explore BBB permeability prediction from a new angle and introduce a novel approach to predict BBB permeability from drug clinical phenotypes (drug side effects and drug indications). This method can apply to both small compounds and macro-molecules penetrating B

SUBMITTER: Gao Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5860495 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature