"Drug Discovery" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The process of finding chemicals for potential therapeutic use.
| Descriptor ID |
D055808
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.295 H01.158.703.007.675 H01.181.466.675
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drug Discovery" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drug Discovery" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2010 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2013 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| 2016 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2019 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Discovery" by people in Profiles.
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Target identification and assessment in the era of AI. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2026 Jul; 25(7):534-552.
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Advancing target discovery through disease-specific integration of multi-modal target identification models and comprehensive benchmarking system. Sci Rep. 2026 Apr 12; 16(1).
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Toward universal binder discovery: Advances in display, computational design and in vivo platforms. Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2026 Jun; 92:102663.
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CD-CODE 2.0: an enhanced condensate knowledgebase integrating pathobiology, condensate modulating drugs, and host-pathogen interactions. Nucleic Acids Res. 2026 Jan 06; 54(D1):D375-D382.
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AI-Driven Acceleration of Fluorescence Probe Discovery. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2026 Feb; 13(10):e15604.
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Assaying the myosin super-relaxed state across muscle types, cells and proteins for understanding muscle biology and use in drug discovery. Nat Protoc. 2026 06; 21(6):2796-2826.
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Prompt-based multimodal representation learning for drug repurposing. Brief Bioinform. 2025 Nov 01; 26(6).
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Discovery of Macrocyclic Peptide Binders, Covalent Modifiers, and Degraders of a Structured RNA by mRNA Display. J Am Chem Soc. 2025 09 24; 147(38):34256-34270.
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Antibiotic target discovery by integrated phenotypic and activity-based profiling of electrophilic fragments. Cell Chem Biol. 2025 03 20; 32(3):434-448.e9.
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Discovery of Thioether-Cyclized Macrocyclic Covalent Inhibitors by mRNA Display. J Am Chem Soc. 2024 08 28; 146(34):24053-24060.