Course Overview:
Network pharmacology (NP) is a systems-level approach to understand the complex interactions between the drugs and biological systems. NP is one of the tools that help answer scientific questions on your computer without sacrificing model animals. You will learn how to apply NP in the identification of the key targets of candidate drugs or herbs, explore potential mechanisms of action, and discover how NP can facilitate drug repurposing. Through hands-on tutorials and assignments, the skills needed to independently perform NP analyses will be gained, expanding expertise in this innovative field of drug discovery.
Objectives:
- Understand the fundamental principles and concepts of network pharmacology.
- Learn to integrate diverse biological and chemical data sources for comprehensive analysis.
- Master techniques for identifying potential drug targets and predicting drug-target interactions.
- Learn methods for drug repurposing using network-based approaches.
Learning outcome
Understand key concepts and principles of network pharmacology. Construct and analyze biological networks and identify key targets and pathways. Predict potential drug-target interactions and apply network pharmacology methods to research questions/datasets
Course Content (four-hours/day for 2 days on 2 weeks)
- Setting the Drug-Target-Disease Network using Cytoscape software
- Protein-Protein interactions using STRING database +/- Enrichment analysis
- Enrichment analysis using Shiny GO.
- Preparing Drug-Target & Disease –Target files
Certificate
Certificates will be granted to participants based on full course attendance.
Target Audience
- Last Year Pharmacy Students
- Postgraduate students
- Drug developers
- Academic researchers
Requirements
Attendance of the 2 full days of training
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