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ArticleNature biotechnology2017

Alternative drug sensitivity metrics improve preclinical cancer pharmacogenomics.

Marc Hafner, Mario Niepel, Peter K Sorger

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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54citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marc HafnerHMS LINCS Center, Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1337-7598
Mario NiepelHMS LINCS Center, Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1415-6295
Peter K SorgerHMS LINCS Center, Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

Pharmaco Response Signatures and Disease MechanismU54HL127365 · NHLBI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI SORGER, PETER KARL · 2014 to 2019
$13.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS U54 HL127365
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Dose-Response Relationship, DrugPharmacogeneticsCell Line, TumorHumansNeoplasms

Identifiers

PMID28591115
PMCPMC5668135

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