Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Agreement between two large pan-cancer CRISPR-Cas9 gene dependency data sets

  • Joshua M. Dempster,
  • Clare Pacini,
  • Sasha Pantel,
  • Fiona M. Behan,
  • Thomas Green,
  • John Krill-Burger,
  • Charlotte M. Beaver,
  • Scott T. Younger,
  • Victor Zhivich,
  • Hanna Najgebauer,
  • Felicity Allen,
  • Emanuel Gonçalves,
  • Rebecca Shepherd,
  • John G. Doench,
  • Kosuke Yusa,
  • Francisca Vazquez,
  • Leopold Parts,
  • Jesse S. Boehm,
  • Todd R. Golub,
  • William C. Hahn,
  • David E. Root,
  • Mathew J. Garnett,
  • Aviad Tsherniak,
  • Francesco Iorio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13805-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Integrating independent large-scale pharmacogenomic screens can enable unprecedented characterization of genetic vulnerabilities in cancers. Here, the authors show that the two largest independent CRISPR-Cas9 gene-dependency screens are concordant, paving the way for joint analysis of the data sets.