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ArticleGigaScience2019

TranscriptAchilles: a genome-wide platform to predict isoform biomarkers of gene essentiality in cancer.

Fernando Carazo, Lucía Campuzano, Xabier Cendoya, Francisco J Planes, Angel Rubio

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Article in GigaScience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Fernando CarazoTecnun (University of Navarra), Paseo Manuel Lardizábal 15, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences.
Lucía CampuzanoUniversity of Luxembourg, 2, avenue de l'Université, 4365 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
Xabier CendoyaTecnun (University of Navarra), Paseo Manuel Lardizábal 15, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences.
Francisco J PlanesTecnun (University of Navarra), Paseo Manuel Lardizábal 15, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences.
Angel RubioTecnun (University of Navarra), Paseo Manuel Lardizábal 15, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences.

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Abstract

backgroundAberrant alternative splicing plays a key role in cancer development. In recent years, alternative splicing has been used as a prognosis biomarker, a therapy response biomarker, and even as a therapeutic target. Next-generation RNA sequencing has an unprecedented potential to measure the transcriptome. However, due to the complexity of dealing with isoforms, the scientific community has not sufficiently exploited this valuable resource in precision medicine.

findingsWe present TranscriptAchilles, the first large-scale tool to predict transcript biomarkers associated with gene essentiality in cancer. This application integrates 412 loss-of-function RNA interference screens of >17,000 genes, together with their corresponding whole-transcriptome expression profiling. Using this tool, we have studied which are the cancer subtypes for which alternative splicing plays a significant role to state gene essentiality. In addition, we include a case study of renal cell carcinoma that shows the biological soundness of the results. The databases, the source code, and a guide to build the platform within a Docker container are available at GitLab. The application is also available online.

conclusionsTranscriptAchilles provides a user-friendly web interface to identify transcript or gene biomarkers of gene essentiality, which could be used as a starting point for a drug development project. This approach opens a wide range of translational applications in cancer.

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Alternative SplicingBiomarkers, TumorOncogenesSoftwareAlgorithmsComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansModels, StatisticalNeoplasmsRNA IsoformsTranscriptomeUser-Computer InterfaceWorkflowBiomarkers, TumorRNA Isoformsalternative splicingbiomarkercancergene essentialityprecision medicineRNAi screenRNA-sequencingtranscriptomicsweb tool

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PMCPMC6446222

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