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ArticleAging2020

H-RACS: a handy tool to rank anti-cancer synergistic drugs.

Xinmiao Yan, Yiyan Yang, Zikun Chen, Zuojing Yin, Zeliang Deng, Tianyi Qiu, Kailin Tang, Zhiwei Cao

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Article in Aging, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Xinmiao YanDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Yiyan YangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Zikun ChenDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Zuojing YinDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Zeliang DengDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Tianyi QiuShanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Kailin TangDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Zhiwei CaoDepartment of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital · CNShanghai Public Health Clinical Center · CNTongji University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Though promising, identifying synergistic combinations from a large pool of candidate drugs remains challenging for cancer treatment. Due to unclear mechanism and limited confirmed cases, only a few computational algorithms are able to predict drug synergy. Yet they normally require the drug-cell treatment results as an essential input, thus exclude the possibility to pre-screen those unexplored drugs without cell treatment profiling. Based on the largest dataset of 33,574 combinational scenarios, we proposed a handy webserver, H-RACS, to overcome the above problems. Being loaded with chemical structures and target information, H-RACS can recommend potential synergistic pairs between candidate drugs on 928 cell lines of 24 prevalent cancer types. A high model performance was achieved with AUC of 0.89 on independent combinational scenarios. On the second independent validation of DREAM dataset, H-RACS obtained precision of 67% among its top 5% ranking list. When being tested on new combinations and new cell lines, H-RACS showed strong extendibility with AUC of 0.84 and 0.81 respectively. As the first online server freely accessible at http://www.badd-cao.net/h-racs, H-RACS may promote the pre-screening of synergistic combinations for new chemical drugs on unexplored cancers.

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Databases, PharmaceuticalMachine LearningAntineoplastic AgentsAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCell Line, TumorDrug SynergismHumansMolecular StructureNeoplasmsReproducibility of ResultsStructure-Activity RelationshipAntineoplastic Agentsanti-cancerbioinformaticsdrug synergysynergistic combinationweb server

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PMID33173014
PMCPMC7695372
OpenAlexW3105523772

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