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BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS VITIDB: VITILIGO PROTEIN REPOSITORY AND ASSESSMENT PORTAL 17
Anvita Gupta Malhotra et al.
online databases in providing all-inclusive information
about the drugs, targets and target identi cation proc-
ess aimed at further research and drug discovery efforts.
Availability
vitiDBis a free database that can be accessed at http://
vitidb.com
Acknowledgments
The authors thankfully acknowledge the help, support
and guidance provided by Dr. Ajay Pandey, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, MANIT, Bhopal.
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