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ArticleCommunications biology2023

Open-source curation of a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma gene expression analysis platform (pdacR) supports a two-subtype model.

Luke A Torre-Healy, Ryan R Kawalerski, Ki Oh, Lucie Chrastecka, Xianlu L Peng, Andrew J Aguirre, Naim U Rashid, Jen Jen Yeh, Richard A Moffitt

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Updates in Molecular Profiling of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma.The Surgical clinics of North America · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Luke A Torre-Healy *Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9513-4620
Ryan R Kawalerski *Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Ki OhDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6947-8163
Lucie ChrasteckaDepartment of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Xianlu L PengDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Andrew J AguirreDepartment of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
Naim U RashidLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Jen Jen YehDepartment of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Richard A MoffittDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA. Richard.austin.moffitt@emory.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2723-5902
Stony Brook Medicine · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USEmory University · US

Funding

Lineage Specifiers Governing Pancreatic Cancer Growth and Molecular SubtypeR01CA237404 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI SNYDER, ERIC LEE · 2020 to 2024
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NCI NIH HHS R01 CA237404U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01CA237404
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an aggressive disease for which potent therapies have limited efficacy. Several studies have described the transcriptomic landscape of PDAC tumors to provide insight into potentially actionable gene expression signatures to improve patient outcomes. Despite centralization efforts from multiple organizations and increased transparency requirements from funding agencies and publishers, analysis of public PDAC data remains difficult. Bioinformatic pitfalls litter public transcriptomic data, such as subtle inclusion of low-purity and non-adenocarcinoma cases. These pitfalls can introduce non-specificity to gene signatures without appropriate data curation, which can negatively impact findings. To reduce barriers to analysis, we have created pdacR ( http://pdacR.bmi.stonybrook.edu , github.com/rmoffitt/pdacR), an open-source software package and web-tool with annotated datasets from landmark studies and an interface for user-friendly analysis in clustering, differential expression, survival, and dimensionality reduction. Using this tool, we present a multi-dataset analysis of PDAC transcriptomics that confirms the basal-like/classical model over alternatives.

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Carcinoma, Pancreatic DuctalPancreatic NeoplasmsGene Expression ProfilingHumansPrognosis

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PMID36765128
PMCPMC9918476
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