Cheminformatics Based Machine Learning Approaches for Assessing Glycolytic Pathway Antagonists of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Journal: Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis is the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide after HIV, thus reasoning the expeditions in antituberculosis research. The rising number of cases of infection by resistant forms of M. tuberculosis has given impetus to the development of novel drugs that have different targets and mechanisms of action against the bacterium.

Authors

  • Kanupriya Tiwari
  • Salma Jamal
    School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India phone/fax: +91-11-26738728; fax: +91-11-26702040.
  • Sonam Grover
  • Sukriti Goyal
  • Aditi Singh
  • Abhinav Grover
    Department of Pharmacology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Associated Hospitals, New Delhi, India.