**8. Web-based tools and databases for drug target identification**

A variety of different silico tools and databases are available for drug target determination among the identified genes in pathogens for an initial screening. DrugBank(http://insilico.charite.de/supertarget/ main.html#Home), NCBI Entrez Gene(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/msd/), TarFisDock and MATADOR ( http://matador. embl.de/) could be used either by a manual searching or by BLAST search of sequenced proteins. These facilities compensate the costs of screening through very large compound collections, minimizing the pace of drug discovery by both reducing the number of compounds used in real screens and the costs of screening [2].
