GVK Biosciences today announced that it has licensed its GOSTAR toxicity and natural products database to the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA).
The Material Transfer Agreement forms the basis of collaboration in drug repositioning, wherein the initial focus will be to identify alternative therapeutic indications of marketed compounds for neglected and orphan diseases.
GVK BIO developed a proprietary ‘Drug Repurposing Platform’ with eight different approaches to address the drug repurposing challenge. The platform will use data from GVKBIO proprietary databases like GOSTAR, biomarker database and other public databases.
GOSTAR has been developed over the span of a decade by a team comprising of more than 200 scientists. The database and application is being used globally by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies as well as academia. It contains over 6.5 million compounds manually curated through the manual screening of over 2.5 million patents and 400,000 journals and it also contains more than 18 million quantitative SAR points.
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