Monday, December 11, 2017

Studies in Drosophila among those contributing to content included in DrugAge database

Barardo D, Thornton D, Thoppil H, Walsh M, Sharifi S, Ferreira S, Anžič A, Fernandes M, Monteiro P, Grum T, Cordeiro R, De-Souza EA, Budovsky A, Araujo N, Gruber J, Petrascheck M, Fraifeld VE, Zhavoronkov A, Moskalev A, de Magalhães JP. The DrugAge database of aging-related drugs. Aging Cell. 2017 Jun;16(3):594-597. PMID: 28299908; PMCID: PMC5418190.

From the abstract: "Aging is a major worldwide medical challenge. Not surprisingly, identifying drugs and compounds that extend lifespan in model organisms is a growing research area. Here, we present DrugAge (http://genomics.senescence.info/drugs/), a curated database of lifespan-extending drugs and compounds. At the time of writing, DrugAge contains 1316 entries featuring 418 different compounds from studies across 27 model organisms, including worms, flies, yeast and mice. Data were manually curated from 324 publications. ... DrugAge is freely available online for the scientific community and will be an important resource for biogerontologists."

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