drug discovery

process by which new candidate medications are discovered
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drug discovery

Summary

drug discovery ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (365 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • drug discovery was followed by drug development[2].
  • drug discovery is a type of biochemistry[3].
  • drug discovery is a type of drug development[4].
  • drug discovery's Commons category is recorded as Drug discoveries[5].
  • drug discovery's said to be the same as is recorded as pharmaceutical research[6].
  • drug discovery's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Drug discovery[7].
  • drug discovery's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Zika Corpus[8].
  • drug discovery's P10203 is recorded as 3002[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include biochemistry[3] and drug development[4].

Why It Matters

drug discovery ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (365 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as pharmaceutical research
    Subclass of
    Aliases
    Subclass of biochemistry, drug development
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007565368105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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