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.

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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

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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.

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