Predicting Drug Targets in Mycobacterium leprae Using Genomic In-silico Analysis

Abstract

Mycobacterium leprae is the causative agent of the disease, leprosy. In-silico analysis can be performed 
on M. leprae genome to find out the potential drug targets. This was done first by database search to find 
the recorded complete genes with complete sequences of M. leprae and then their comparative study 
with human by using homology searching using human BLAST. From a total of 1605 genes, potential 
drug targets have been identified.