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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2023

Genomic and proteomic biomarker landscape in clinical trials.

Janet Piñero, Pablo S Rodriguez Fraga, Jordi Valls-Margarit, Francesco Ronzano, Pablo Accuosto, Ricard Lambea Jane, Ferran Sanz, Laura I Furlong

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Article in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Janet PiñeroMedBioinformatics Solutions SL, Almogàvers 165, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
Pablo S Rodriguez FragaResearch Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Dept. of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
Jordi Valls-MargaritMedBioinformatics Solutions SL, Almogàvers 165, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
Francesco RonzanoResearch Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Dept. of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
Pablo AccuostoResearch Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Dept. of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
Ricard Lambea JaneResearch Programme on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), Dept. of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.
Ferran SanzMedBioinformatics Solutions SL, Almogàvers 165, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
Laura I FurlongMedBioinformatics Solutions SL, Almogàvers 165, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of molecular biomarkers to support disease diagnosis, monitor its progression, and guide drug treatment has gained traction in the last decades. While only a dozen biomarkers have been approved for their exploitation in the clinic by the FDA, many more are evaluated in the context of translational research and clinical trials. Furthermore, the information on which biomarkers are measured, for which purpose, and in relation to which conditions are not readily accessible: biomarkers used in clinical studies available through resources such as ClinicalTrials.gov are described as free text, posing significant challenges in finding, analyzing, and processing them by both humans and machines. We present a text mining strategy to identify proteomic and genomic biomarkers used in clinical trials and classify them according to the methodologies by which they are measured. We find more than 3000 biomarkers used in the context of 2600 diseases. By analyzing this dataset, we uncover patterns of use of biomarkers across therapeutic areas over time, including the biomarker type and their specificity. These data are made available at the Clinical Biomarker App at https://www.disgenet.org/biomarkers/, a new portal that enables the exploration of biomarkers extracted from the clinical studies available at ClinicalTrials.gov and enriched with information from the scientific literature. The App features several metrics that assess the specificity of the biomarkers, facilitating their selection and prioritization. Overall, the Clinical Biomarker App is a valuable and timely resource about clinical biomarkers, to accelerate biomarker discovery, development, and application.

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Actionable biomarkerBiomarkerClinical trialGenomic biomarkerProteomic biomarkerText mining

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PMID36968019
PMCPMC10036891
OpenAlexW4327569469

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