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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2022

A cross-study analysis of drug response prediction in cancer cell lines.

Fangfang Xia, Jonathan Allen, Prasanna Balaprakash, Thomas Brettin, Cristina Garcia-Cardona, Austin Clyde, Judith Cohn, James Doroshow, Xiaotian Duan, Veronika Dubinkina and 14 more

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022. 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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24 authors.

Fangfang XiaArgonne National Laboratory.
Jonathan AllenLawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Prasanna BalaprakashArgonne National Laboratory.
Thomas BrettinArgonne National Laboratory.
Cristina Garcia-CardonaLos Alamos National Laboratory.
Austin ClydeArgonne National Laboratory.
Judith CohnLos Alamos National Laboratory.
James DoroshowNational Cancer Institute.
Xiaotian DuanUniversity of Chicago.
Veronika DubinkinaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Yvonne EvrardFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
Ya Ju FanLawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Jason GansLos Alamos National Laboratory.
Stewart HeLawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Pinyi LuFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
Sergei MaslovUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Alexander PartinArgonne National Laboratory.
Maulik ShuklaArgonne National Laboratory.
Eric StahlbergFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
Justin M WozniakArgonne National Laboratory.
Hyunseung YooArgonne National Laboratory.
George ZakiFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research.
Yitan ZhuArgonne National Laboratory.
Rick StevensArgonne National Laboratory.

Funding

CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CNCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001E
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To enable personalized cancer treatment, machine learning models have been developed to predict drug response as a function of tumor and drug features. However, most algorithm development efforts have relied on cross-validation within a single study to assess model accuracy. While an essential first step, cross-validation within a biological data set typically provides an overly optimistic estimate of the prediction performance on independent test sets. To provide a more rigorous assessment of model generalizability between different studies, we use machine learning to analyze five publicly available cell line-based data sets: National Cancer Institute 60, ancer Therapeutics Response Portal (CTRP), Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer, Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia and Genentech Cell Line Screening Initiative (gCSI). Based on observed experimental variability across studies, we explore estimates of prediction upper bounds. We report performance results of a variety of machine learning models, with a multitasking deep neural network achieving the best cross-study generalizability. By multiple measures, models trained on CTRP yield the most accurate predictions on the remaining testing data, and gCSI is the most predictable among the cell line data sets included in this study. With these experiments and further simulations on partial data, two lessons emerge: (1) differences in viability assays can limit model generalizability across studies and (2) drug diversity, more than tumor diversity, is crucial for raising model generalizability in preclinical screening.

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NeoplasmsAlgorithmsCell LineHumansMachine LearningNeural Networks, Computerdeep learningdrug response predictiondrug sensitivityprecision oncology

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PMID34524425
PMCPMC8769697

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