Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Community assessment to advance computational prediction of cancer drug combinations in a pharmacogenomic screen

  • Michael P. Menden,
  • Dennis Wang,
  • Mike J. Mason,
  • Bence Szalai,
  • Krishna C. Bulusu,
  • Yuanfang Guan,
  • Thomas Yu,
  • Jaewoo Kang,
  • Minji Jeon,
  • Russ Wolfinger,
  • Tin Nguyen,
  • Mikhail Zaslavskiy,
  • AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination DREAM Consortium,
  • In Sock Jang,
  • Zara Ghazoui,
  • Mehmet Eren Ahsen,
  • Robert Vogel,
  • Elias Chaibub Neto,
  • Thea Norman,
  • Eric K. Y. Tang,
  • Mathew J. Garnett,
  • Giovanni Y. Di Veroli,
  • Stephen Fawell,
  • Gustavo Stolovitzky,
  • Justin Guinney,
  • Jonathan R. Dry,
  • Julio Saez-Rodriguez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09799-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Resistance to first line treatment is a major hurdle in cancer treatment, that can be overcome with drug combinations. Here, the authors provide a large drug combination screen across cancer cell lines to benchmark crowdsourced methods and to computationally predict drug synergies.