[Recorded Webinar And Slides Are Available Now!] Join dkNET Webinar: Illuminating The Druggable Genome With Pharos on October 23, 2020

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Join dkNET Webinar on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, 11 am - 12 pm PDT

Abstract

Pharos is an integrated web-based informatics platform for the analysis of data aggregated by the Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Knowledge Management Center, an NIH Common Fund initiative. The current version of Pharos (as of October 2019) spans 20,244 proteins in the human proteome, 19,880 disease and phenotype associations, and 226,829 ChEMBL compounds. This resource not only collates and analyzes data from over 60 high-quality resources to generate these types, but also uses text indexing to find less apparent connections between targets, and has recently begun to collaborate with institutions that generate data and resources. Proteins are ranked according to a knowledge-based classification system, which can help researchers to identify less studied “dark” targets that could be potentially further illuminated. This is an important process for both drug discovery and target validation, as more knowledge can accelerate target identification, and previously understudied proteins can serve as novel targets in drug discovery. In this webinar, Dr. Tudor Oprea will introduce how to use Pharos to find targets of interest for drug discovery.

The top 3 key questions that Pharos can answer:

1. What are the novel drug targets that may play a role in a specific disease?

2. What are the diseases that are related directly or indirectly to a drug target?

3. Find researchers that are related directly or indirectly to a drug target.

Presenter: Tudor Oprea, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Chief of Translational Informatics Division & Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico

Dial-in In formation

Date/Time: Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, 11 am - 12 pm PDT

https://uchealth.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctdOmupzIuHdSxrs700waNkOA2cIAIzSS8

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