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ArticleF1000Research2016

Open drug discovery for the Zika virus.

Sean Ekins, Daniel Mietchen, Megan Coffee, Thomas P Stratton, Joel S Freundlich, Lucio Freitas-Junior, Eugene Muratov, Jair Siqueira-Neto, Antony J Williams, Carolina Andrade

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Article in F1000Research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. School of cheminformatics in Latin America.Journal of cheminformatics · 2023
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  4. A review on Zika virus outbreak, epidemiology, transmission and infection dynamics.Journal of biological research (Thessalonike, Greece) · 2020
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  13. The A-Z of Zika drug discovery.Drug discovery today · 2018
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  19. Zika Virus: An Emerging Global Health Threat.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Sean EkinsCollaborations in Chemistry Inc, Fuquay-Varina, NC, USA; Collaborations Pharmaceuticals Inc., Fuquay-Varina, NC, USA; Collaborative Drug Discovery Inc., Burlingame, CA, USA.
Daniel MietchenOpen Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V., Berlin, Germany.
Megan CoffeeThe International Rescue Committee , NY, NY, USA.
Thomas P StrattonDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
Joel S FreundlichDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, and the Ruy V. Lourenço Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens, Rutgers University-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA.
Lucio Freitas-JuniorChemical Biology and Screening Platform, Brazilian Laboratory of Biosciences (LNBio), CNPEM, Campinas, Brazil.
Eugene MuratovLaboratory for Molecular Modeling, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Jair Siqueira-NetoSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Antony J WilliamsChemConnector, Wake Forest, NC, USA.
Carolina AndradeLabMol - Laboratory for Molecular Modeling and Drug Design, Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Goias, Goiânia, Brazil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in the Americas has caused global concern that we may be on the brink of a healthcare crisis. The lack of research on ZIKV in the over 60 years that we have known about it has left us with little in the way of starting points for drug discovery. Our response can build on previous efforts with virus outbreaks and lean heavily on work done on other flaviviruses such as dengue virus. We provide some suggestions of what might be possible and propose an open drug discovery effort that mobilizes global science efforts and provides leadership, which thus far has been lacking. We also provide a listing of potential resources and molecules that could be prioritized for testing as in vitro assays for ZIKV are developed. We propose also that in order to incentivize drug discovery, a neglected disease priority review voucher should be available to those who successfully develop an FDA approved treatment. Learning from the response to the ZIKV, the approaches to drug discovery used and the success and failures will be critical for future infectious disease outbreaks.

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Aedesdenguedrug discoveryebolaflavivirusmicrocephalyyellow feverZika

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PMCPMC4841202

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