druggability

English

Alternative forms

• drugability

Etymology

drug +‎ -ability

Noun

druggability (plural druggabilities)

1. (genetics, medicine) The ability of a portion of a genome to be targeted by a drug, especially by a small molecule drug
   • 2007 March, Joanna Owens, “Determining druggability”, in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery‎^[1], volume 6, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 187–187:

     A target's druggability is usually estimated by classifying it with known gene families that have previously been successfully targeted with drugs.

Related terms

• druggable