In Silico Studies on Identification of Novel Therapeutic Targets for Treatment of Diabetes: A Review

Shivani Singh

Abstract: The expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are major entities for gene discovery, molecular transcripts, and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) analysis as well as functional annotation of putative gene products. In our quest for identification of novel diabetic genes as virtual targets for type II diabetes, databases and Methods used in silico evaluation are illustrated. The functional and structural annotations of these proteins revealed some important features which may lead to the discovery of novel therapeutic targets for the treatment of diabetes.

Keywords: Expressed sequence tags, Single nucleotide polymorphism, molecular transcripts