Context is everything: aneuploidy in cancer

U Ben-David, A Amon - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer is driven by multiple types of genetic alterations, which range in size from point
mutations to whole-chromosome gains and losses, known as aneuploidy. Chromosome …

Image-based profiling for drug discovery: due for a machine-learning upgrade?

SN Chandrasekaran, H Ceulemans, JD Boyd… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Image-based profiling is a maturing strategy by which the rich information present in
biological images is reduced to a multidimensional profile, a collection of extracted image …

Next-generation characterization of the cancer cell line encyclopedia

M Ghandi, FW Huang, J Jané-Valbuena, GV Kryukov… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Large panels of comprehensively characterized human cancer models, including the
Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE), have provided a rigorous framework with which to …

TTD: Therapeutic Target Database describing target druggability information

Y Zhou, Y Zhang, D Zhao, X Yu, X Shen… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Target discovery is one of the essential steps in modern drug development, and the
identification of promising targets is fundamental for develo** first-in-class drug. A variety …

Diverse clonal fates emerge upon drug treatment of homogeneous cancer cells

Y Goyal, GT Busch, M Pillai, J Li, RH Boe, EI Grody… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Even among genetically identical cancer cells, resistance to therapy frequently emerges
from a small subset of those cells,,,,,–. Molecular differences in rare individual cells in the …

Discovering the anticancer potential of non-oncology drugs by systematic viability profiling

SM Corsello, RT Nagari, RD Spangler, J Rossen… - Nature cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Anticancer uses of non-oncology drugs have occasionally been found, but such discoveries
have been serendipitous. We sought to create a public resource containing the growth …

An organoid platform for ovarian cancer captures intra-and interpatient heterogeneity

O Kopper, CJ De Witte, K Lõhmussaar… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is a heterogeneous disease usually diagnosed at a late stage.
Experimental in vitro models that faithfully capture the hallmarks and tumor heterogeneity of …

[HTML][HTML] Artificial intelligence in drug discovery: what is realistic, what are illusions? Part 1: Ways to make an impact, and why we are not there yet

A Bender, I Cortés-Ciriano - Drug discovery today, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed many areas such as speech and image
recognition, but not yet drug discovery.•Approaches to AI in drug discovery need to take in …

Off-target toxicity is a common mechanism of action of cancer drugs undergoing clinical trials

A Lin, CJ Giuliano, A Palladino, KM John… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Ninety-seven percent of drug-indication pairs that are tested in clinical trials in oncology
never advance to receive US Food and Drug Administration approval. While lack of efficacy …

Gradient of developmental and injury response transcriptional states defines functional vulnerabilities underpinning glioblastoma heterogeneity

LM Richards, OKN Whitley, G MacLeod, FMG Cavalli… - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Glioblastomas harbor diverse cell populations, including rare glioblastoma stem cells
(GSCs) that drive tumorigenesis. To characterize functional diversity within this population …