About this Research Topic
One aspect of multi-omics-based drug development with huge uncovered therapeutic potential is drug repurposing. This is an important way to maximize the time, economic resources, and efforts used in taking a new compound to market by investigating its therapeutic potential for other diseases. It is also a way to speed up the process of finding new therapeutic avenues in extraordinary medical situations such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.
In this Research Topic we aim at collecting the latest research describing, applying, and advancing the use of multi-omic integration techniques and resulting graphs or networks of associations with the goal of drug repurposing. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we also welcome contributions focused on graph-based drug repurposing of COVID-19 related treatments.
Areas covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• New methods of graph- or network-based drug repurposing
• Novel applications of existing graph- or network-based techniques for drug repurposing
• Multi-omics integration for complex diseases
• Models utilizing omics data for drug repurposing
• Connection of omics layers to facilitate drug repurposing
• Construction of graphs or networks for drug repurposing
• Integration of databases for drug repurposing
• Novel multi-omic resources for drugs and diseases
Topic Editor Dimitri Guala holds a position at Merck AB. All other Topic Editors declare no competing interests with regard to the Research Topic subject.
Keywords: drug repurposing, drug repositioning, multi-omic, multi-modal, data integration, network-based, graph-based
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