druggable
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editdruggable (comparative more druggable, superlative most druggable)
- (genetics, medicine) Describing the ability of a biological molecule (for example, a protein) to be targeted by drugs, especially by small molecule drugs.
- Antonyms: undruggable, non-druggable
- 2007 March, Joanna Owens, “Determining druggability”, in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery[1], volume 6, number 3, , →ISSN, pages 187–187:
- With only 10% of the human genome representing druggable targets, and only half of those being relevant to disease, it is important to be able to predict how druggable a novel target is in early drug discovery.