druggable

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English

Etymology

From drug +‎ -able.

Adjective

druggable (comparative more druggable, superlative most druggable)

  1. (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, volume 6, number 3, →DOI, →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.