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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 43, Issue W1, Pages W193-W199Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv445
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- Children's Tumor Foundation [2013-04-005]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [BIO2013-48028-R]
- Government of Madrid (CAM) [P2010/BMD-2305]
- CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI)
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Drug repositioning, using known drugs for treating conditions different from those the drug was originally designed to treat, is an important drug discovery tool that allows for a faster and cheaper development process by using drugs that are already approved or in an advanced trial stage for another purpose. This is especially relevant for orphan diseases because they affect too few people to make drug research de novo economically viable. In this paper we present NFFinder, a bioinformatics tool for identifying potential useful drugs in the context of orphan diseases. NFFinder uses transcriptomic data to find relationships between drugs, diseases and a phenotype of interest, as well as identifying experts having published on that domain. The application shows in a dashboard a series of graphics and tables designed to help researchers formulate repositioning hypotheses and identify potential biological relationships between drugs and diseases. NFFinder is freely available at http://nffinder.cnb.csic.es.
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