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GVK BIO, University of Dundee sign licensing deal for Online SAR database

The GOSTAR database comprises more than 18 million quantitative SAR points and more than 6 million compounds manually curated through the screening of more than 2 million patents and 400,000 journals.

GVK BIO vice president business development Sreeni Devidas said, "We are excited that the Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) at the University of Dundee has decided to license GOSTAR. This database will provide valuable information to the researchers at Drug Discovery Unit (DDU) and aid them in their drug discovery endeavors."

GOSTAR was developed by integrating over fifteen individual databases including chemical space for ten of the popular biological targets.

Additionally, all published and patented inhibitors against biological targets that exceed 6,500 in number are included in the MedChem Databases.

Two databases on toxicity and natural products each are included in the database in addition to several analysis tools.