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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2019

The GCTx format and cmap{Py, R, M, J} packages: resources for optimized storage and integrated traversal of annotated dense matrices.

Oana M Enache, David L Lahr, Ted E Natoli, Lev Litichevskiy, David Wadden, Corey Flynn, Joshua Gould, Jacob K Asiedu, Rajiv Narayan, Aravind Subramanian

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10 authors.

Oana M EnacheThe Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David L LahrThe Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ted E NatoliThe Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Lev LitichevskiyThe Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David WaddenDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Corey FlynnMediaSilo, Boston, MA, USA.
Joshua GouldThe Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jacob K AsieduThe Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Rajiv NarayanThe Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Aravind SubramanianThe Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Funding

Discovering existing medicines that abrogate cellular responses to SARS CoV-2 infectionU54HL127366 · NHLBI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI GOLUB, TODD R. · 2014 to 2020
$14.3M
LINCS Data Coordination and Integration CenterU01HG008699 · NHGRI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI GOLUB, TODD R., SUBRAMANIAN, ARAVIND · 2015 to 2019
$3.2M
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG008699NHLBI NIH HHS U54 HL127366
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Abstract

motivationFacilitated by technological improvements, pharmacologic and genetic perturbational datasets have grown in recent years to include millions of experiments. Sharing and publicly distributing these diverse data creates many opportunities for discovery, but in recent years the unprecedented size of data generated and its complex associated metadata have also created data storage and integration challenges.

resultsWe present the GCTx file format and a suite of open-source packages for the efficient storage, serialization and analysis of dense two-dimensional matrices. We have extensively used the format in the Connectivity Map to assemble and share massive datasets currently comprising 1.3 million experiments, and we anticipate that the format's generalizability, paired with code libraries that we provide, will lower barriers for integrated cross-assay analysis and algorithm development. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Software packages (available in Python, R, Matlab and Java) are freely available at https://github.com/cmap. Additional instructions, tutorials and datasets are available at clue.io/code. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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PMCPMC6477971

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