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DrugRepV

General information

URL: https://bioinfo.imtech.res.in/manojk/drugrepv
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Description: The database contains 8485 entries (3448 unique) with biological, chemical, clinical and structural information of 23 viruses responsible to cause epidemics/pandemics.
Year founded: 2021
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Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: India

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Data type:
RNA
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Contact information

University/Institution: Institute of Microbial Technology
Address: Virology Unit & Bioinformatics Centre, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh, INDIA-160036.
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Country/Region: India
Contact name (PI/Team): Dr. Manoj Kumar
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): manojk@imtech.res.in

Publications

33480398
DrugRepV: a compendium of repurposed drugs and chemicals targeting epidemic and pandemic viruses. [PMID: 33480398]
Akanksha Rajput, Archit Kumar, Kirti Megha, Anamika Thakur, Manoj Kumar

Viruses are responsible for causing various epidemics and pandemics with a high mortality rate e.g. ongoing SARS-CoronaVirus-2 crisis. The discovery of novel antivirals remains a challenge but drug repurposing is emerging as a potential solution to develop antivirals in a cost-effective manner. In this regard, we collated the information of repurposed drugs tested for antiviral activity from literature and presented it in the form of a user-friendly web server named 'DrugRepV'. The database contains 8485 entries (3448 unique) with biological, chemical, clinical and structural information of 23 viruses responsible to cause epidemics/pandemics. The database harbors browse and search options to explore the repurposed drug entries. The data can be explored by some important fields like drugs, viruses, drug targets, clinical trials, assays, etc. For summarizing the data, we provide overall statistics of the repurposed candidates. To make the database more informative, it is hyperlinked to various external repositories like DrugBank, PubChem, NCBI-Taxonomy, Clinicaltrials.gov, World Health Organization and many more. 'DrugRepV' database (https://bioinfo.imtech.res.in/manojk/drugrepv/) would be highly useful to the research community working to develop antivirals.

Brief Bioinform. 2021:() | 14 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-20)

Ranking

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3021/6895 (56.2%)
Health and medicine:
756/1738 (56.559%)
3021
Total Rank
14
Citations
3.5
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Created on: 2021-10-19
Curated by:
sun yongqing [2022-08-23]
Lin Liu [2022-06-02]
Yuxin Qin [2022-05-03]
Dong Zou [2021-10-19]