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The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to
PHARMACOLOGY (GtoPdb)
Chris Southan (on behalf of the GtoPdb team)
Jan 2017, Edinburgh University
http://www.guidetopharmacology.org
1
Outline
• Straw polls
• Database content
• Navigation and searching
• Tasks for you
• Feedback on navigability
• The atorvastatin naming story
2
Straw poll – show of hands please for:
• Cheminformatics or
bioinformatics background
• BNF
• FDA, EMA
• INN, USAN, stems
• PubChem
• UniProt/Swiss-Prot
• Boolean queries
• Disease-causing protein
variants
• How many prescription
drugs are there?
• How many were
approved in 2016?
• How many new drugs
are in Phase III?
3
Spread of approved drug numbers
4
New approved drugs: a bad year
5
Clinical development numbers
6
DATABASE CONTENT
For release 2016.4 Nov 2016
7
GtoPdb content - targets
>2700 established or potential drug targets and related
proteins:
• G protein-coupled receptors (Class A, B, C, frizzled, adhesion and
orphan GPCRs)
• Ligand-gated ion channels
• Voltage-gated ion channels
• Other ion channels
• Nuclear hormone receptors
• Catalytic receptors
• Kinases
• Proteases
• Other enzymes
• Transporters
• Other protein targets
8
Approaching 9000 ligands and drugs:
• Approved drugs
• Synthetic organic compounds
• Metabolites, hormones, neurotransmitters
• Natural products
• Endogenous peptides
• Other peptides
• Inorganics
• Antibodies
• Labelled ligands
GtoPdb content - ligands
9
• We have 14,701 curated interactions
• These are between 2,794 human targets and 8,675 ligands.
• For 1,429 human targets we have recorded quantitative
interactions to a ligand (mostly IC50, Ki or Kd)
• In PubChem, the 8,625 ligands generate 6565 compound
identifiers for small molecules and peptides
• The 2,110 SIDs that do not merge into CIDs are antibodies,
small proteins and large peptides
GtoPdb content - relationships
10
Concise target family summaries
• Concise target family summaries introducing the main
properties
• Expert overviews and comments
• Selective ligands, clinicically-used drugs, endogenous
ligands and probes (radioligands and PET ligands where
available)
• Further reading lists
11
Detailed annotation for selected targets
Data are collected and reviewed by NC-IUPHAR
subcommittees and individual experts:
• Gene and protein information
• IUPHAR nomenclature and synonyms
• Extensive pharmacology: agonist, antagonist and allosteric
regulator affinities, ion channel blockers, enzyme/transporter
inhibitors and substrates
• Signal transduction mechanisms; Tissue distribution
• Functional assays; Physiological functions
• Mouse gene knockout phenotypes
• Clinically-relevant mutations and pathophysiology
• Gene expression changes in disease; biologically significant
variants
12
Other features
• Extensively referenced and linked to primary literature in
PubMed
• Focus is on human data but where species differences
exist or literature data unavailable other species are given
• Linked to corresponding entries in other resources, e.g.
UniProt, Ensembl, Entrez Gene, KEGG, OMIM, ChEMBL
• Ligand information including structure, peptide
sequences, clinical data and nomenclature, linked up to
chemistry resources including PubChem
13
NAVIGATING THE WEBSITE
AND SEARCH TOOLS
14
Navigating GtoPdb
• Browse lists of targets and ligands
• Target families are listed under expandable family trees
• Target information is presented in two levels of detail
1. Concise family summary pages
2. Detailed pages for selected targets
• Ligand pages are provided for all compounds in GtoPdb
• Use the search tools to search by name, keyword,
identifier or ligand structure
15
Home
Page
16
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17
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Histamine receptors family summary page
18
Histamine H2 receptor concise summary view
19

Reference information and linkout to PubMed
20

Link to more details for the H2 receptor
21

H2 receptor detailed annotation page
22
Linkouts to other gene and protein resources
23
Click for species-specific selectivity table
Ligand is endogenous in this species
Ligand is labelled
Ligand is radioactive
Approved drug
Primary target of this compound

Interaction tables
24
Ligand page for the approved drug
ranitidine
25

Biological activity data for ranitidine at targets in the database
26

Clinical use and mechanism of action for ranitidine
27
Peptide ligand information
• Curated sequence
information
• Post-translational and
chemical group
modifications
• Precursor proteins and
encoding genes
• Similar sequences
Ligand page for the endogenous
peptide endothelin-1
28
Bespoke tables for different targets
• Heteromeric complexes: subunit composition
• GPCRs: signal transduction mechanism
• Ion channels: ion conductance and voltage-dependence
• Nuclear receptors: DNA co-binding partners, target genes
• Enzymes: substrates, cofactors, reaction mechanisms
• Transporters: substrates
GABAB receptor
isopentenyl-diphosphate Δ-isomerase 1
29
Database search functionality
• Quick search box at the top of every page with
autocomplete for target, family and ligand names
• Advanced searches are available on the Target Search
and Ligand Search pages
30
Target search tools
• Search by name or keyword, identifier (e.g. UniProtKB
accession) or reference (e.g. PubMed id)
31
Ligand search tools
• Search by name, identifier (e.g. PubChem CID, InChI) or
structure (exact match, similarity, substructure, SMARTS)
32
Advanced search by keyword
• Keyword searches, for example by disease name, can
facilitate retrieval of associated ligands and targets
A search for “Alzheimer’s
disease” returns implicated
targets and ligands tested
in clinical trials
33
TASKS
34
Tasks 1
• Find atorvastatin – what’s the parent molecular weight
• What is the target name and SwissProt ID?
• How many approved statins are there?
• How many unapproved statins?
• What is the weakest inhibitor listed?
• Why was this made and tested?
• How many clinical trials were published involving
atorvastatin in 2015?
• Can you find any metabolites?
• What different ways can you find them?
35
Tasks II
• How many entries come back when you search
“atorvastatin” in PubChem Compound?
• Why and when did this drug go “generic”? (not in Guide)
• Which external source was authentic and useful for this
information?
• What other non-statin drugs for hypercholesterolemia can
be found in the Guide?
• Which of these appears to be a major breakthrough as
new mechanism of action and was approved in 2015? (in
Guide but not obvious)
• Does anyone have a BNF Medicines Complete
password?
36
ATORVASTATIN NAMING
37
Which Drug Did
You Mean?
38
History of Drug Names
Approximate timelines
[cpd registration system structure and ID------------------------------------------------------------]
[patent IUPAC or image--------------------------------------------------------------------]
[internal code name(s) externally blinded-------]
[code name(s) > structure declared externally -----]
[journal papers -----------------------------------------------------------------------]
[International Non-proprietary name INN]
[INN indexed in MeSH-----------------]
[USAN, BAN, JAN --------------------]
[brand name(s)-------------------]
[combination brand ]
[genric name/brand ]
39
History ofAtorvastatin
• 1985: (3R,5R)-7-[2-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-phenyl-4-(phenylcarbamoyl)-5-(propan-2-yl)-1H-pyrrol-
1-yl]-3,5-dihydroxyheptanoic acid IUPAC
• ~ 1987: Park-Davis internal code number CI-981
• ~ 1995: Atorvastatin [INN:BAN] Atorvastatin calcium [USAN], Atorvastatin calcium
trihydrate [INN] Atorvastatina (Spain)
• 1997 Lipitor (brand name) Faboxim (Argentina) Zurinel (Chile) etc
• 2004: Caduet (brand name) Norvasc (amlodipine besylate) and Lipitor(atorvastatin
calcium)
• 2012: atorvastatin calcium – generic - Ranbaxy
• 2012: amlodipine besylate and atorvastatin calcium – generic - Ranbaxy
40
What isAtorvastatin? - for patients and doctors
41
FDA insert label:
hemi-calcium trihydrate
What is atorvastatin? – for informaticians
PubChem CID 60823
Wikepedia
ChemSpider 54810
DrugBank APRD00055
CHEMBL1487
CAS 134523-00-5
PubChem submissions include:
(3R,5R) CID 60823
(5R) CID 51052072
(3R) CID 21029434
(3S,5R) CID 6093359
(3S,5S) CID 62976
No stereo CID 2250
Fully deuterated CID 53234038
42
What is atorvastatin? – Google images
43
Pharmacological activity in vivo is ~70% active metabolites
CID 9851106
CID 9808225
CID 60823
44
Salt confusion (I) atorvastatin calcium
CID 60822 Mw 1155
CAS 134523-03-8
CID 656846 Mw 1209
CAS 344423-98-9
CID 11227182 Mw 598
INN = atorvastatin
USAN/BAN = atorvastatin
calcium
FDA packege
insert lable
45
Salt confusion (II): what gets to patients
CID 53252956
CID 656846
No INNs, USANs or clinical trials entries for these salts
46
• Tautomer/stereo mutiplexing and structure interconversion differences (e.g.
complex antibiotics)
• Popular structures > 100s of submitters > many vendors > more noise
• Opaque ecosystem of primary submitters, secondary linkers, declared circularity,
cryptic circularity, and submitters having independent portals with different rules
• Older drugs accumulate 100’s of synonyms and database x-refs, with erros
• Accumulated wet assay results are dependent on how long the drug has been in
which public screening collection
• Deprecated structures not always refreshed between databases globally
• Pro-drugs, metabolites or tested combinations rarely have explicit x-refs
Causes of drug linkage spaghetti
47
Mixtures: problematic all round
• Atorvastatin parent (CID 60823) has 379 mixture SIDs and 147 mixture CIDs
permuatated from 122 component CIDs
• Of the 122 components 58 have a MeSH pharmacology tag, 92 have
BioAssays results, 70 are in DrugBank, 101 are in ChEMBL, and 47 are below
200 mw (and thus probably salts not drugs)
• Of the 147 mixture CIDs, only the 2 atorvastatin dimers have assay results or
pharmacology so none of the drug mixtures have direct data links
• None are in DrugBank CIDs and only atorvastin calcium is in ChEMBL
• 138 of the 147 have been extracted from patents by Derwent/Thomson and are
unlikely to get data links
• The small number of important drug combinations that do have data and/or trial
results are difficult to identify
• Tested drug mixtures rarely get public code names, some get trade names but
never INNs
• Chemistry rules may split mixtures and synonyms in databases
• PubMed "Drug Combinations"[MeSH Term] = 54,186 but no SID or CID links
• Mixture components can be designated with space, / , + or ”co”
48
The famous polypill
CID 44602839 Thomson Pharma
18 clinicaltrials.gov entries, but
only partial component links
aspirin 81 mg, enalapril 2.5 mg, atorvastatin 20 mg and hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg
(polypill) PMID: 21647425: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry
ACTRN12607000099426
DrugBank and TTD negative
49
Caduet: an approved combination
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01107743
Drugbank Wikipedia
50
Summary
• You can navigate the linkage spaghetti in name, synonym, structure
bioactivity and mixture space, but this needs perspicacity and
circumspection.
• The current drug information ecosystem with multiple stakeholders seems
destined to remain ”fuzzy”
• Beyond informatics challenges the consequences, particularly from frank
errors, could be more serious
• WHO INNs and naming stems play a key positive role – but ;
• No open athoritative database - only 7000 PDF entries
• No transparent coordination between USAN, FDA, MeSH, national offices, or
clinical trials registries
• Susceptable to commercial flanking tactics
• Fixed drug combinations have a bright pharmacological future but a difficult
informatics one
• The fuzz includes scientific challenges (e.g. complex strucutures, dynamic
tautomerism, active metabolites, formulation differences, paucity of
standardised and comparable activity data).
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END NOTES
52
Acknowledgements
• The late Prof Tony Harmar, founder and original PI
• Michael Spedding, Steve Alexander, Ian McGrath, Anthony Davenport, John
Peters and all past and present members of NC-IUPHAR
• NC-IUPHAR subcommittees and Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY
contributors
• Database team:
• Prof. Jamie Davies (Principal Investigator) Joanna Sharman , Simon Harding
(Developers), Adam Pawson, Elena Faccenda and Christopher Southan (Curators),
Toni Wigglesworth (Project Administration)
• Database team alumni
• IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY funders:
References
PubMed 26464438
PubMed 26650438 (this is the intro to a series of articles)
Stay in touch
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GtoPdb teaching slides

  • 1. www.guidetopharmacology.org The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (GtoPdb) Chris Southan (on behalf of the GtoPdb team) Jan 2017, Edinburgh University http://www.guidetopharmacology.org 1
  • 2. Outline • Straw polls • Database content • Navigation and searching • Tasks for you • Feedback on navigability • The atorvastatin naming story 2
  • 3. Straw poll – show of hands please for: • Cheminformatics or bioinformatics background • BNF • FDA, EMA • INN, USAN, stems • PubChem • UniProt/Swiss-Prot • Boolean queries • Disease-causing protein variants • How many prescription drugs are there? • How many were approved in 2016? • How many new drugs are in Phase III? 3
  • 4. Spread of approved drug numbers 4
  • 5. New approved drugs: a bad year 5
  • 7. DATABASE CONTENT For release 2016.4 Nov 2016 7
  • 8. GtoPdb content - targets >2700 established or potential drug targets and related proteins: • G protein-coupled receptors (Class A, B, C, frizzled, adhesion and orphan GPCRs) • Ligand-gated ion channels • Voltage-gated ion channels • Other ion channels • Nuclear hormone receptors • Catalytic receptors • Kinases • Proteases • Other enzymes • Transporters • Other protein targets 8
  • 9. Approaching 9000 ligands and drugs: • Approved drugs • Synthetic organic compounds • Metabolites, hormones, neurotransmitters • Natural products • Endogenous peptides • Other peptides • Inorganics • Antibodies • Labelled ligands GtoPdb content - ligands 9
  • 10. • We have 14,701 curated interactions • These are between 2,794 human targets and 8,675 ligands. • For 1,429 human targets we have recorded quantitative interactions to a ligand (mostly IC50, Ki or Kd) • In PubChem, the 8,625 ligands generate 6565 compound identifiers for small molecules and peptides • The 2,110 SIDs that do not merge into CIDs are antibodies, small proteins and large peptides GtoPdb content - relationships 10
  • 11. Concise target family summaries • Concise target family summaries introducing the main properties • Expert overviews and comments • Selective ligands, clinicically-used drugs, endogenous ligands and probes (radioligands and PET ligands where available) • Further reading lists 11
  • 12. Detailed annotation for selected targets Data are collected and reviewed by NC-IUPHAR subcommittees and individual experts: • Gene and protein information • IUPHAR nomenclature and synonyms • Extensive pharmacology: agonist, antagonist and allosteric regulator affinities, ion channel blockers, enzyme/transporter inhibitors and substrates • Signal transduction mechanisms; Tissue distribution • Functional assays; Physiological functions • Mouse gene knockout phenotypes • Clinically-relevant mutations and pathophysiology • Gene expression changes in disease; biologically significant variants 12
  • 13. Other features • Extensively referenced and linked to primary literature in PubMed • Focus is on human data but where species differences exist or literature data unavailable other species are given • Linked to corresponding entries in other resources, e.g. UniProt, Ensembl, Entrez Gene, KEGG, OMIM, ChEMBL • Ligand information including structure, peptide sequences, clinical data and nomenclature, linked up to chemistry resources including PubChem 13
  • 14. NAVIGATING THE WEBSITE AND SEARCH TOOLS 14
  • 15. Navigating GtoPdb • Browse lists of targets and ligands • Target families are listed under expandable family trees • Target information is presented in two levels of detail 1. Concise family summary pages 2. Detailed pages for selected targets • Ligand pages are provided for all compounds in GtoPdb • Use the search tools to search by name, keyword, identifier or ligand structure 15
  • 19. Histamine H2 receptor concise summary view 19
  • 20.  Reference information and linkout to PubMed 20
  • 21.  Link to more details for the H2 receptor 21
  • 22.  H2 receptor detailed annotation page 22
  • 23. Linkouts to other gene and protein resources 23
  • 24. Click for species-specific selectivity table Ligand is endogenous in this species Ligand is labelled Ligand is radioactive Approved drug Primary target of this compound  Interaction tables 24
  • 25. Ligand page for the approved drug ranitidine 25
  • 26.  Biological activity data for ranitidine at targets in the database 26
  • 27.  Clinical use and mechanism of action for ranitidine 27
  • 28. Peptide ligand information • Curated sequence information • Post-translational and chemical group modifications • Precursor proteins and encoding genes • Similar sequences Ligand page for the endogenous peptide endothelin-1 28
  • 29. Bespoke tables for different targets • Heteromeric complexes: subunit composition • GPCRs: signal transduction mechanism • Ion channels: ion conductance and voltage-dependence • Nuclear receptors: DNA co-binding partners, target genes • Enzymes: substrates, cofactors, reaction mechanisms • Transporters: substrates GABAB receptor isopentenyl-diphosphate Δ-isomerase 1 29
  • 30. Database search functionality • Quick search box at the top of every page with autocomplete for target, family and ligand names • Advanced searches are available on the Target Search and Ligand Search pages 30
  • 31. Target search tools • Search by name or keyword, identifier (e.g. UniProtKB accession) or reference (e.g. PubMed id) 31
  • 32. Ligand search tools • Search by name, identifier (e.g. PubChem CID, InChI) or structure (exact match, similarity, substructure, SMARTS) 32
  • 33. Advanced search by keyword • Keyword searches, for example by disease name, can facilitate retrieval of associated ligands and targets A search for “Alzheimer’s disease” returns implicated targets and ligands tested in clinical trials 33
  • 35. Tasks 1 • Find atorvastatin – what’s the parent molecular weight • What is the target name and SwissProt ID? • How many approved statins are there? • How many unapproved statins? • What is the weakest inhibitor listed? • Why was this made and tested? • How many clinical trials were published involving atorvastatin in 2015? • Can you find any metabolites? • What different ways can you find them? 35
  • 36. Tasks II • How many entries come back when you search “atorvastatin” in PubChem Compound? • Why and when did this drug go “generic”? (not in Guide) • Which external source was authentic and useful for this information? • What other non-statin drugs for hypercholesterolemia can be found in the Guide? • Which of these appears to be a major breakthrough as new mechanism of action and was approved in 2015? (in Guide but not obvious) • Does anyone have a BNF Medicines Complete password? 36
  • 38. Which Drug Did You Mean? 38
  • 39. History of Drug Names Approximate timelines [cpd registration system structure and ID------------------------------------------------------------] [patent IUPAC or image--------------------------------------------------------------------] [internal code name(s) externally blinded-------] [code name(s) > structure declared externally -----] [journal papers -----------------------------------------------------------------------] [International Non-proprietary name INN] [INN indexed in MeSH-----------------] [USAN, BAN, JAN --------------------] [brand name(s)-------------------] [combination brand ] [genric name/brand ] 39
  • 40. History ofAtorvastatin • 1985: (3R,5R)-7-[2-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-phenyl-4-(phenylcarbamoyl)-5-(propan-2-yl)-1H-pyrrol- 1-yl]-3,5-dihydroxyheptanoic acid IUPAC • ~ 1987: Park-Davis internal code number CI-981 • ~ 1995: Atorvastatin [INN:BAN] Atorvastatin calcium [USAN], Atorvastatin calcium trihydrate [INN] Atorvastatina (Spain) • 1997 Lipitor (brand name) Faboxim (Argentina) Zurinel (Chile) etc • 2004: Caduet (brand name) Norvasc (amlodipine besylate) and Lipitor(atorvastatin calcium) • 2012: atorvastatin calcium – generic - Ranbaxy • 2012: amlodipine besylate and atorvastatin calcium – generic - Ranbaxy 40
  • 41. What isAtorvastatin? - for patients and doctors 41 FDA insert label: hemi-calcium trihydrate
  • 42. What is atorvastatin? – for informaticians PubChem CID 60823 Wikepedia ChemSpider 54810 DrugBank APRD00055 CHEMBL1487 CAS 134523-00-5 PubChem submissions include: (3R,5R) CID 60823 (5R) CID 51052072 (3R) CID 21029434 (3S,5R) CID 6093359 (3S,5S) CID 62976 No stereo CID 2250 Fully deuterated CID 53234038 42
  • 43. What is atorvastatin? – Google images 43
  • 44. Pharmacological activity in vivo is ~70% active metabolites CID 9851106 CID 9808225 CID 60823 44
  • 45. Salt confusion (I) atorvastatin calcium CID 60822 Mw 1155 CAS 134523-03-8 CID 656846 Mw 1209 CAS 344423-98-9 CID 11227182 Mw 598 INN = atorvastatin USAN/BAN = atorvastatin calcium FDA packege insert lable 45
  • 46. Salt confusion (II): what gets to patients CID 53252956 CID 656846 No INNs, USANs or clinical trials entries for these salts 46
  • 47. • Tautomer/stereo mutiplexing and structure interconversion differences (e.g. complex antibiotics) • Popular structures > 100s of submitters > many vendors > more noise • Opaque ecosystem of primary submitters, secondary linkers, declared circularity, cryptic circularity, and submitters having independent portals with different rules • Older drugs accumulate 100’s of synonyms and database x-refs, with erros • Accumulated wet assay results are dependent on how long the drug has been in which public screening collection • Deprecated structures not always refreshed between databases globally • Pro-drugs, metabolites or tested combinations rarely have explicit x-refs Causes of drug linkage spaghetti 47
  • 48. Mixtures: problematic all round • Atorvastatin parent (CID 60823) has 379 mixture SIDs and 147 mixture CIDs permuatated from 122 component CIDs • Of the 122 components 58 have a MeSH pharmacology tag, 92 have BioAssays results, 70 are in DrugBank, 101 are in ChEMBL, and 47 are below 200 mw (and thus probably salts not drugs) • Of the 147 mixture CIDs, only the 2 atorvastatin dimers have assay results or pharmacology so none of the drug mixtures have direct data links • None are in DrugBank CIDs and only atorvastin calcium is in ChEMBL • 138 of the 147 have been extracted from patents by Derwent/Thomson and are unlikely to get data links • The small number of important drug combinations that do have data and/or trial results are difficult to identify • Tested drug mixtures rarely get public code names, some get trade names but never INNs • Chemistry rules may split mixtures and synonyms in databases • PubMed "Drug Combinations"[MeSH Term] = 54,186 but no SID or CID links • Mixture components can be designated with space, / , + or ”co” 48
  • 49. The famous polypill CID 44602839 Thomson Pharma 18 clinicaltrials.gov entries, but only partial component links aspirin 81 mg, enalapril 2.5 mg, atorvastatin 20 mg and hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg (polypill) PMID: 21647425: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN12607000099426 DrugBank and TTD negative 49
  • 50. Caduet: an approved combination http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01107743 Drugbank Wikipedia 50
  • 51. Summary • You can navigate the linkage spaghetti in name, synonym, structure bioactivity and mixture space, but this needs perspicacity and circumspection. • The current drug information ecosystem with multiple stakeholders seems destined to remain ”fuzzy” • Beyond informatics challenges the consequences, particularly from frank errors, could be more serious • WHO INNs and naming stems play a key positive role – but ; • No open athoritative database - only 7000 PDF entries • No transparent coordination between USAN, FDA, MeSH, national offices, or clinical trials registries • Susceptable to commercial flanking tactics • Fixed drug combinations have a bright pharmacological future but a difficult informatics one • The fuzz includes scientific challenges (e.g. complex strucutures, dynamic tautomerism, active metabolites, formulation differences, paucity of standardised and comparable activity data). 51
  • 53. Acknowledgements • The late Prof Tony Harmar, founder and original PI • Michael Spedding, Steve Alexander, Ian McGrath, Anthony Davenport, John Peters and all past and present members of NC-IUPHAR • NC-IUPHAR subcommittees and Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY contributors • Database team: • Prof. Jamie Davies (Principal Investigator) Joanna Sharman , Simon Harding (Developers), Adam Pawson, Elena Faccenda and Christopher Southan (Curators), Toni Wigglesworth (Project Administration) • Database team alumni • IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY funders:
  • 54. References PubMed 26464438 PubMed 26650438 (this is the intro to a series of articles)
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