Faced with the catastrophic prognosis for ovarian cancer due to the fact that it is most often diagnosed late at the peritoneal carcinomatosis stage, screening and early detection could probably reduce the mortality rate. A better understanding of the molecular characteristics of the different ovarian cancer subtypes and their specific molecular signatures is indispensable prior to development ...

The ChEMBL database was mined to efficiently assemble an ion channel-focused screening library. The compiled library consists of 3241 compounds representing 123 templates across nine ion channel categories. Compounds in the screening library are annotated with their respective ion channel category to facilitate back-tracing of prospective molecular targets from phenotypic screening results. The...

Current similarity measures for virtual screening are based on the use of molecular fingerprints and the Tanimoto coefficient. This paper describes two ways in which one can increase the effectiveness of similarity-based virtual screening: using similarity coefficients other than the Tanimoto coefficient for the comparison of molecular fingerprints; and using a graph-theoretic similarity measur...

Virtual screening, especially the structure-based virtual screening, has emerged as a reliable, cost-effective and time-saving technique for the discovery of lead compounds. Here, the basic ideas and computational tools for virtual screening have been briefly introduced, and emphasis is placed on aspects of recent development of docking-based virtual screening, scoring functions in molecular do...

Molecular profiling of liquid biopsies is now emerging as pivotal for cancer biomarker discovery. The low-invasive nature of the approach used for collecting biospecimens (i.e. blood, urine, saliva, etc.) may allow a widespread application of novel molecular diagnostics based on liquid biopsies. This is relevant, for example, in cancer screening programmes where it is essential to reduce costs ...

the prevalence of primary infection with t. gondii in pregnant women and risk of congenital infection in their neonates in various parts of tehran are unknown. the prevalence rate of antibodies to t. gondii ranges from 24% in tehran to 62.7% in babol. this study describes the epidemiology of toxoplasma infection in pregnant women in tehran and risk factors of congenital toxoplasmosis in newborn...