This article is available online at http://www.jlr.org status to fi nd the right drug match. Several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are placing substantial effort in the development of such tailored therapeutics, with the prospects of signifi cantly improved clinical outcomes: effi cacy associated with reductions in adverse events ( 1,2 ).While precision medicine already shows high potential for the discovery of highly effi cacious, safer medicines, targeted drug development requires in-depth understanding of the mechanism of action of experimental compounds, as well as robust systems for accurate profi ling (and prediction) of therapeutic response. The systematic analysis of drugs that interact with more than one molecular target offers an opportunity to dissect the complexities of drug action and constitutes the fi rst step for the construction of computational models to predict polypharmacology ( 3, 4 ). Advances in omics platforms over the past decade have enabled early exploration of global physiological perturbations (genome, proteome, metabolome, epigenome, and lipidome) in health and disease, thus ushering in the era of systems biology. Several approaches drawing from this emerging discipline have been utilized to build drugtarget networks for complex diseases, involving multiple drugs acting on distinct targets. Those efforts have aided in the formulation of combinatorial therapy hypotheses ( 5, 6 ). A less desirable, yet central aspect to polypharmacology is the ever-present off-target effects. One major reason for deprioritization of candidate drugs is the discovery of toxicities, often during late preclinical profi ling and clinical development stages. Emerging computational methodologies are starting to provide more effi cient Abstract It is widely accepted that small-molecule drugs, despite their selectivity at primary targets, exert pharmacological effects (and safety liabilities) through a multiplicity of pathways. As such, it has proved extremely difficult to experimentally assess polypharmacology in an agnostic fashion. Profi ling of metabolites produced as part of physiological responses to pharmacological stimuli provides a unique opportunity to explore drug pharmacology. A total of 122 eicosanoid lipids in human whole blood were monitored from 10 different donors upon stimulation with several inducers of immunological responses and treatment with modulators of prostaglandin (PG) and leukotriene biosynthesis, including clinical and investigational molecules. Such analysis revealed differentiation between drugs nominally targeting different eicosanoid biosynthetic enzymes, or even those designed to target the same enzyme. Profi led agents, some of them marketed products, affect eicosanoid biosynthesis in ways that cannot be predicted from information on their intended targets. As an example, we used this platform to discriminate drugs based on their ability to silence PG biosynthesis in response to bacterial lipopolysaccharide, resulting in differential pharmacological activity in ...