TiPs: a database of therapeutic targets in pathogens and associated tools

Bioinformatics. 2013 Jul 15;29(14):1821-2. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt289. Epub 2013 May 21.

Abstract

Motivation: The need for new drugs and new targets is particularly compelling in an era that is witnessing an alarming increase of drug resistance in human pathogens. The identification of new targets of known drugs is a promising approach, which has proven successful in several cases. Here, we describe a database that includes information on 5153 putative drug-target pairs for 150 human pathogens derived from available drug-target crystallographic complexes.

Availability and implementation: The TiPs database is freely available at http://biocomputing.it/tips.

Contact: anna.tramontano@uniroma1.it or allegra.via@uniroma1.it.

MeSH terms

  • Binding Sites
  • Databases, Pharmaceutical*
  • Drug Discovery*
  • Humans
  • Infections / drug therapy
  • Models, Molecular
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / chemistry
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Proteins / drug effects
  • Software

Substances

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations
  • Proteins