PharmacoGx
PharmacoGx provides integrative analysis of pharmacogenomic datasets to identify biomarkers and characterize drug response for precision medicine.
Key Features:
- Integrative analysis capabilities: Enables integration and harmonization of multiple pharmacogenomic datasets for comparative analyses.
- Standardized data access and analysis: Implements a standardized framework to access, normalize, and analyze dispersed pharmacogenomic data.
- Large-scale dataset comparison: Facilitates comparative analyses across large drug sensitivity resources such as the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) and the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE).
Scientific Applications:
- Biomarker development: Identifies candidate biomarkers predictive of drug response from integrated pharmacogenomic profiles.
- Therapeutic design: Supports investigation of drug response patterns to inform design of therapeutic strategies in precision medicine.
- Connectivity Map analysis: Enables analysis of gene expression changes and connectivity mapping in response to drug treatments.
Methodology:
Provides a cohesive computational framework for integrating diverse pharmacogenomic datasets and conducting meta-analyses to investigate drug efficacy and resistance mechanisms.
Topics
Collections
Details
- License:
- Artistic-2.0
- Tool Type:
- command-line tool, library
- Operating Systems:
- Linux, Windows, Mac
- Programming Languages:
- R
- Added:
- 1/17/2017
- Last Updated:
- 1/11/2019
Operations
Publications
Smirnov P, Safikhani Z, El-Hachem N, Wang D, She A, Olsen C, Freeman M, Selby H, Gendoo DM, Grossmann P, Beck AH, Aerts HJ, Lupien M, Goldenberg A, Haibe-Kains B. PharmacoGx: an R package for analysis of large pharmacogenomic datasets. Bioinformatics. 2015;32(8):1244-1246. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv723. PMID:26656004.
PMID: 26656004