Design of a common pathway drug for all types of cardiovascular diseases: A network biology approach
Al-mustanjid, Chandan Mandal, Md. Habibur Rahman · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2019
More than an era among all non-communicable diseases, cardiovascular diseases have become a major concern worldwide. Cardiovascular diseases have occurred around the world because of some common risk factors. Diseases have a genetic association indirectly or directly resulting from similar risk factors. A disease is caused when a gene misses out its normal activity and affects the body negatively. Several research works have revealed the ways of how a structure-based drug from key biomolecule or protein can be designed for diseases using modern bioinformatics techniques and tools in network biology. This study evaluates protein-protein interaction network and designs a common pathway drug for all types of cardiovascular diseases. The data mining application called knowledge discovery in database (KDD) has been applied and genes are filtered, pre-processed, transformed and mined to identify common cardiovascular disease genes. Cardiovascular disease genes are collected using R from the National Center for Biotechnology Information gene database. Unihi is used as a tool for achieving the goal.