druggable
adjEtymology From drug + -able.
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Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences Describing the potential of a biological molecule (for example, a protein) to be targeted by drugs, especially by small molecule drugs; describing the potential of a disease to be treated thus.
- With only 10% of the human genome representing druggable targets, and only half of those being relevant to disease, it is important to be able to predict how druggable a novel target is in early drug discovery.2007 March 23, Joanna Owens, “Determining druggability”, in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, volume 6, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 187–187:
- Related terms
- druggability, treatable