Abstract
Technological advances in high-throughput screening methods, combinatorial chemistry and the design of virtual libraries have evolved in the pursuit of challenging drug targets. Over the last two decades a vast amount of data has been generated within these fields and as a consequence data mining methods have been developed to extract key pieces of information from these large data pools. Much of this data is now available in the public domain. This has been helpful in the arena of drug discovery for both academic groups and for small to medium sized enterprises which previously would not have had access to such data resources. Commercial data mining software is sometimes prohibitively expensive and the alternate open source data mining software is gaining momentum in both academia and in industrial applications as the costs of research and development continue to rise. KNIME, the Konstanz Information Miner, has emerged as a leader in open source data mining tools. KNIME provides an integrated solution for the data mining requirements across the drug discovery pipeline through a visual assembly of data workflows drawing from an extensive repository of tools. This review will examine KNIME as an open source data mining tool and its applications in drug discovery.
Keywords: Bioinformatics, cheminformatics, computational chemistry, data mining, drug discovery, KNIME.
Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
Title:Drug Discovery Applications for KNIME: An Open Source Data Mining Platform
Volume: 12 Issue: 18
Author(s): Michael P. Mazanetz, Robert J. Marmon, Catherine B. T. Reisser and Inaki Morao
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Keywords: Bioinformatics, cheminformatics, computational chemistry, data mining, drug discovery, KNIME.
Abstract: Technological advances in high-throughput screening methods, combinatorial chemistry and the design of virtual libraries have evolved in the pursuit of challenging drug targets. Over the last two decades a vast amount of data has been generated within these fields and as a consequence data mining methods have been developed to extract key pieces of information from these large data pools. Much of this data is now available in the public domain. This has been helpful in the arena of drug discovery for both academic groups and for small to medium sized enterprises which previously would not have had access to such data resources. Commercial data mining software is sometimes prohibitively expensive and the alternate open source data mining software is gaining momentum in both academia and in industrial applications as the costs of research and development continue to rise. KNIME, the Konstanz Information Miner, has emerged as a leader in open source data mining tools. KNIME provides an integrated solution for the data mining requirements across the drug discovery pipeline through a visual assembly of data workflows drawing from an extensive repository of tools. This review will examine KNIME as an open source data mining tool and its applications in drug discovery.
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P. Mazanetz Michael, J. Marmon Robert, B. T. Reisser Catherine and Morao Inaki, Drug Discovery Applications for KNIME: An Open Source Data Mining Platform, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry 2012; 12(18) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1568026611212180004
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1568026611212180004 |
Print ISSN 1568-0266 |
Publisher Name Bentham Science Publisher |
Online ISSN 1873-4294 |

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