Data Mining in Annotated Chemical Databases

The activities of a compound across screening panels such as a preclinical profiling panel or other protein panels, cell line panels, HTS screening panels, or DNA microarrays can also be a type of signature, termed the biological activity spectra . 

For example, compound selection or design on the basis of similarity to other compounds with a desired global effect on cellular gene expression is now possible -a true clinical application of systems biology. In another intriguing study, Rosania showed that chemical substructures can be predictive of subcellular distribution, which could be highly relevant to the current topic of target prediction [82]. 

The main strength of the biospectra approach is also its main disadvantage in silica predictions initially require experimental data collected across a matrix of targets or 

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