CDRUG: A web server for predicting anticancer activity of chemical compounds

Abstract

Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide. Screening anticancer candidates from tens of millions of chemical compounds is expensive and time-consuming. A rapid and user-friendly web server, known as CDRUG, is described here to predict the anticancer activity of chemical compounds. In CDRUG, a hybrid score was developed to measure the similarity of different compounds. The performance analysis shows that CDRUG has the area under curve of 0.878, indicating that CDRUG is effective to distinguish active and inactive compounds.Availability: The CDRUG web server and the standard-alone version are freely available at http://bsb.kiz.ac.cn/CDRUG/. © 2012 The Author.