Marine Omics for Drug Discovery and Development, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biotechnology Related to Drug Discovery or Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 2875
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bioinformatics; disease genomics; big data integration
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Dear Colleagues,
We are excited to announce the second Special Issue dedicated to advancing research on marine organisms through multi-omics approaches and AI-driven analytics. This Issue will explore the integration of genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolic data to unlock the vast biochemical potential of marine taxa.
We welcome contributions that leverage AI-based drug discovery, machine learning-driven data integration, and network-based approaches to address key challenges in marine biotechnology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Unraveling metabolic biodiversity in marine taxa through AI-powered omics analysis.
- Integrative computational strategies for identifying novel bioactive compounds.
- Deep learning models for predicting natural product structures and optimizing bioactivity.
- Omics-driven insights into marine-derived therapeutics for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and infectious diseases.
- AI-enhanced screening pipelines to overcome bottlenecks in marine natural product drug discovery.
- Systems biology approaches to understand regulatory networks underlying marine organism metabolism.
By combining high-throughput data generation with advanced AI methodologies, this Issue aims to accelerate biomedical applications of marine-derived natural products, from early-stage discovery to clinical translation. We invite researchers from diverse fields to contribute original studies and reviews that showcase the power of integrated omics and AI-driven innovations in marine biotechnology.
Dr. Min Zhao
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine genome
- omics technology
- marine natural products
- marine drug discovery
- high-throughput screening
- computer-aided drug discovery/design
- anti-disease
- anti-cancer
- anti-infectious
- anti-inflammation
- biological products
- pharmacology
- clinical outcome
- AI-based drug discovery
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