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Computer-Aided Drug Discovery for Pathway and Genetic Diseases
Anil Aswani, Claire Tomlin

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Anil Aswani, Claire Tomlin. "Computer-Aided Drug Discovery for Pathway and Genetic Diseases". Unpublished article, 2010.

Abstract
Selecting drug targets in pathway and genetic diseases (e.g., cancer) is a difficult problem facing the medical field and pharmaceutical industry. Because of the complex interconnections and feedback found in biological pathways, it is difficult to understand the potential effects of targeting certain portions of the network. The pharmaceutical industry has avoided novel targets for drugs, largely because of the increased risk in developing such treatments. This necessitates the need for systems biology methods which can help mitigate some of the risks of identifying novel targets and also suggest further experiments to validate them. The primary goal of this paper is to introduce a mathematical framework for solving such problems, that is amenable to computational or mathematical study. The secondary goal is to suggest methods for solving problems posed in this framework. One of these methods is a heuristic which is designed to allow its computations to scale up to much bigger examples and pathways than presented here.

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    Anil Aswani, Claire Tomlin. <a
    href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/784.html"
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    Anil Aswani, Claire Tomlin. "Computer-Aided Drug
    Discovery for Pathway and Genetic Diseases".
    Unpublished article,  2010.
  • BibTeX
    @unpublished{AswaniTomlin10_ComputerAidedDrugDiscoveryForPathwayGeneticDiseases,
        author = {Anil Aswani and Claire Tomlin},
        title = {Computer-Aided Drug Discovery for Pathway and
                  Genetic Diseases},
        year = {2010},
        abstract = {Selecting drug targets in pathway and genetic
                  diseases (e.g., cancer) is a difficult problem
                  facing the medical field and pharmaceutical
                  industry. Because of the complex interconnections
                  and feedback found in biological pathways, it is
                  difficult to understand the potential effects of
                  targeting certain portions of the network. The
                  pharmaceutical industry has avoided novel targets
                  for drugs, largely because of the increased risk
                  in developing such treatments. This necessitates
                  the need for systems biology methods which can
                  help mitigate some of the risks of identifying
                  novel targets and also suggest further experiments
                  to validate them. The primary goal of this paper
                  is to introduce a mathematical framework for
                  solving such problems, that is amenable to
                  computational or mathematical study. The secondary
                  goal is to suggest methods for solving problems
                  posed in this framework. One of these methods is a
                  heuristic which is designed to allow its
                  computations to scale up to much bigger examples
                  and pathways than presented here.},
        URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/784.html}
    }
    

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