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Chun Wei Yap

National Healthcare Group
Verified email at nhg.com.sg
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Therapeutic targets: progress of their exploration and investigation of their characteristics

CJ Zheng, LY Han, CW Yap, ZL Ji, ZW Cao… - Pharmacological …, 2006 - ASPET
Modern drug discovery is primarily based on the search and subsequent testing of drug
candidates acting on a preselected therapeutic target. Progress in genomics, protein structure, …

PaDEL‐descriptor: An open source software to calculate molecular descriptors and fingerprints

CW Yap - Journal of computational chemistry, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction PaDEL‐Descriptor is a software for calculating molecular descriptors and
fingerprints. The software currently calculates 797 descriptors (663 1D, 2D descriptors, and 134 …

[HTML][HTML] Social isolation, loneliness and their relationships with depressive symptoms: A population-based study

L Ge, CW Yap, R Ong, BH Heng - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Objectives To assess the relationship between various social isolation indicators and loneliness,
and to examine the differential associations that social isolation indicators, loneliness …

Anticancer activity of thymoquinone in breast cancer cells: possible involvement of PPAR-γ pathway

CC Woo, SY Loo, V Gee, CW Yap, G Sethi… - Biochemical …, 2011 - Elsevier
Thymoquinone (TQ), an active ingredient of Nigella sativa, has been reported to exhibit anti-oxidant,
anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor activities through mechanism(s) that is not fully …

QSAR modeling is not “push a button and find a correlation”: a case study of toxicity of (benzo‐) triazoles on algae

…, S Cassani, PP Roy, S Kovarich, CW Yap… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A case study of toxicity of (benzo)triazoles ((B)TAZs) to the algae Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata
is used to discuss some problems and solutions in QSAR modeling, particularly in the …

Drug Adverse Reaction Target Database (DART) Proteins Related to Adverse Drug Reactions

ZL Ji, LY Han, CW Yap, LZ Sun, X Chen, YZ Chen - Drug safety, 2003 - Springer
An adverse drug reaction (ADR) often results from interaction of a drug or its metabolites
with specific protein targets important in normal cellular function. Knowledge about these …

Machine learning approaches for predicting compounds that interact with therapeutic and ADMET related proteins

H Li, CW Yap, CY Ung, Y Xue, ZR Li, LY Han… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Computational methods for predicting compounds of specific pharmacodynamic and
ADMET (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) property are useful for …

Effect of selection of molecular descriptors on the prediction of blood− brain barrier penetrating and nonpenetrating agents by statistical learning methods

H Li, CW Yap, CY Ung, Y Xue, ZW Cao… - Journal of Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The ability or inability of a drug to penetrate into the brain is a key consideration in drug
design. Drugs for treating central nervous system (CNS) disorders need to be able to penetrate …

Effect of molecular descriptor feature selection in support vector machine classification of pharmacokinetic and toxicological properties of chemical agents

Y Xue, ZR Li, CW Yap, LZ Sun, X Chen… - Journal of chemical …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Statistical-learning methods have been developed for facilitating the prediction of pharmacokinetic
and toxicological properties of chemical agents. These methods employ a variety of …

[HTML][HTML] Isorhamnetin inhibits proliferation and invasion and induces apoptosis through the modulation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ activation …

…, H Ashktorab, P Tan, KS Ahn, CW Yap… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
Gastric cancer (GC) is a lethal malignancy and the second most common cause of cancer-related
deaths. Although treatment options such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery …