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ArticleACS medicinal chemistry letters2016

Phenotypic Assessment and the Discovery of Topiramate.

Bruce E Maryanoff

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Article in ACS medicinal chemistry letters, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Evidence-based drug discovery.Future medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  7. The Resurrection of Phenotypic Drug Discovery.ACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bruce E MaryanoffBaruch S. Blumberg Institute , 3805 Old Easton Road, Doylestown, Pennsylvania 18902, United States.
Scripps Research Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of phenotypic assessment in drug discovery is discussed, along with the discovery and development of TOPAMAX (topiramate), a billion-dollar molecule for the treatment of epilepsy and migraine.

Indexed as

anticonvulsantDrug discoveryepilepsyphenotypetopiramate

Identifiers

PMID27437073
PMCPMC4948003
OpenAlexW2441452625

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Registered trials

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