A Review of Computational Drug Repositioning Approaches

摘要

Aims & Scope: Computational drug repositioning emerges as a new idea of drug discovery and development. Contrary to conventional routines, computational drug repositioning encompasses low risk and high safety. Some successful cases demonstrated its advantage. Therefore, a large number of computational drug repositioning approaches have been developed over the past decades. We summarized briefly these methods and classified them into target-based, gene-expression-based, phenome-based and multi-omics-based categories according to strategies of drug repositioning.