News

New TDR Targets release.
Posted: 30.Jun.2008

This is our second release (since we started versioning the database, that is). Check the release notes for a detailed description of changes in this release.

New genomes in TDR Targets.
Posted: 7.Mar.2008

The genomes of Brugia malayi and its Wolbachia endosymbiont, Mycobacterium leprae, Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium vivax are now included in TDR Targets. For a summary of available data for these genomes, check the summary table at the bottom of this page.

TDR Targets site updated
Posted: 7.June.2007

The TDR Targets site has been updated. This update brings new functionality that allow users to publish individual queries and/or query sets; and an update of the data from the ongoing curation effort that now includes Leishmania and Plasmodium.


Read old news posts here.

Welcome

This site is part of a WHO/TDR project seeking to exploit the availability of diverse datasets to facilitate the identification and prioritization of drug targets in pathogens causing neglected diseases.

The TDR Targets database functions both as a website where researchers can look for information on their targets of interest; and as a tool for prioritization of targets in whole genomes. Using the database as a tool, researchers can quickly prioritize a genome of interest by performing any number of individual queries on a species of interest, then assigning numerical weights to each query (in the history page) to finally obtain a ranked list of genes by combining the weighted queries.

Getting started

  • If you are a first time user and you want to leverage the full benefits of the database, you may want to quickly browse our slideshow tutorials.
  • To search for targets, click on search.
  • To examine and work with queries that you have previously run (for example to give scores to each query and then combine them to obtain a prioritized list of targets), click on history.
  • To examine queries that others have made publicly available, click on posted lists of targets.
  • To examine the entries in the targets Survey, click on drug targets survey.

 

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