Chemo- and bioinformatics resources for in silico drug discovery from medicinal plants beyond their traditional use: a critical review.
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چکیده
In silico approaches have been widely recognised to be useful for drug discovery. Here, we consider the significance of available databases of medicinal plants and chemo- and bioinformatics tools for in silico drug discovery beyond the traditional use of folk medicines. This review contains a practical example of the application of combined chemo- and bioinformatics methods to study pleiotropic therapeutic effects (known and novel) of 50 medicinal plants from Traditional Indian Medicine.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Natural product reports
دوره 31 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014