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The availability of large collections of transcriptional responses to drugs enables computational approaches to drug repositioning directly based on measured molecular effects.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We introduce a novel computational methodology for rational drug repositioning, which exploits the transcriptional responses following treatment with small molecule. Specifically, given a therapeutic target gene, a prioritization of potential effective drugs is obtained by assessing their impact on the transcription of genes in the pathway(s) including the target. We performed in silico validation and comparison with a state-of-art technique based on similar principles. We next performed experimental validation in two different real-case drug repositioning scenarios: (i) upregulation of the glutamate-pyruvate transaminase (GPT), which has been shown to induce reduction of oxalate levels in a mouse model of primary hyperoxaluria, and (ii) activation of the transcription factor TFEB, a master regulator of lysosomal biogenesis and autophagy, whose modulation may be beneficial in neurodegenerative disorders.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A web tool for Gene2drug is freely available at http:\/\/gene2drug.tigem.it. An R package is under development and can be obtained from https:\/\/github.com\/franapoli\/gep2pep.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Supplementary information<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btx800","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,10]],"date-time":"2017-12-10T15:06:35Z","timestamp":1512918395000},"page":"1498-1505","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":88,"title":["gene2drug: a computational tool for pathway-based rational drug repositioning"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"34","author":[{"given":"Francesco","family":"Napolitano","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli (NA), Italy"}]},{"given":"Diego","family":"Carrella","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli (NA), Italy"}]},{"given":"Barbara","family":"Mandriani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli (NA), Italy"}]},{"given":"Sandra","family":"Pisonero-Vaquero","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli (NA), Italy"}]},{"given":"Francesco","family":"Sirci","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli (NA), Italy"},{"name":"Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), C\/ Baldiri Reixac 10, Barcelona, Spain"}]},{"given":"Diego L","family":"Medina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli (NA), Italy"}]},{"given":"Nicola","family":"Brunetti-Pierri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli (NA), Italy"},{"name":"Department of Translational Medicine, Federico II University, Naples, Italy"}]},{"given":"Diego","family":"di Bernardo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Systems and Synthetic Biology Lab, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli (NA), Italy"},{"name":"Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012713023043900_btx800-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"673","DOI":"10.1038\/nrd1468","article-title":"Drug repositioning: identifying and developing new uses for existing drugs","volume":"3","author":"Ashburn","year":"2004","journal-title":"Nat. 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