druggability

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Etymology

From 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, 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.