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ArticleNucleic acids research2020

CancerGeneNet: linking driver genes to cancer hallmarks.

Marta Iannuccelli, Elisa Micarelli, Prisca Lo Surdo, Alessandro Palma, Livia Perfetto, Ilaria Rozzo, Luisa Castagnoli, Luana Licata, Gianni Cesareni

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2020. 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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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Marta IannuccelliDepartment of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Elisa MicarelliDepartment of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Prisca Lo SurdoDepartment of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Alessandro PalmaDepartment of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Livia PerfettoDepartment of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Ilaria RozzoDepartment of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Luisa CastagnoliDepartment of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Luana LicataDepartment of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
Gianni CesareniDepartment of Biology, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
University of Rome Tor Vergata · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CancerGeneNet (https://signor.uniroma2.it/CancerGeneNet/) is a resource that links genes that are frequently mutated in cancers to cancer phenotypes. The resource takes advantage of a curation effort aimed at embedding a large fraction of the gene products that are found altered in cancer cells into a network of causal protein relationships. Graph algorithms, in turn, allow to infer likely paths of causal interactions linking cancer associated genes to cancer phenotypes thus offering a rational framework for the design of strategies to revert disease phenotypes. CancerGeneNet bridges two interaction layers by connecting proteins whose activities are affected by cancer drivers to proteins that impact on the 'hallmarks of cancer'. In addition, CancerGeneNet annotates curated pathways that are relevant to rationalize the pathological consequences of cancer driver mutations in selected common cancers and 'MiniPathways' illustrating regulatory circuits that are frequently altered in different cancers.

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Databases, GeneticAlgorithmsAntineoplastic AgentsComputer GraphicsHumansMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsPhenotypeProteinsUser-Computer InterfaceAntineoplastic AgentsProteins

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