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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

PACT: a pipeline for analysis of circulating tumor DNA.

Jace Webster, Ha X Dang, Pradeep S Chauhan, Wenjia Feng, Alex Shiang, Peter K Harris, Russell K Pachynski, Aadel A Chaudhuri, Christopher A Maher

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Genomic and Epigenomic Analysis of Plasma Cell-Free DNA Identifies Stemness Features Associated with Worse Survival in Lethal Prostate Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2025
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9 authors.

Jace WebsterMcDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63108, United States.
Ha X DangMcDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63108, United States.
Pradeep S ChauhanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Wenjia FengDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6320-3927
Alex ShiangDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Peter K Harris
Russell K PachynskiSiteman Cancer Center, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Aadel A ChaudhuriSiteman Cancer Center, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63110, United States.
Christopher A MaherMcDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63108, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9035-603X

Funding

Cell-Free Nucleic Acids for Early Treatment Response Assessment of Hepatocellular CancerK08CA238711 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI CHAUDHURI, AADEL · 2019 to 2021
$647k
Targeted sequencing of cell-free DNA for monitoring of prostate cancer progressionF31CA265010 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI WEBSTER, JACE · 2021 to 2023
$90k
NCI NIH HHS F31 CA265010NCI NIH HHS K08 CA238711
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationDetection of genomic alterations in circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is currently used for active clinical monitoring of cancer progression and treatment response. While methods for analysis of small mutations are more developed, strategies for detecting structural variants (SVs) in ctDNA are limited. Additionally, reproducibly calling small-scale mutations, copy number alterations, and SVs in ctDNA is challenging due to the lack to unified tools for these different classes of variants.

resultsWe developed a unified pipeline for the analysis of ctDNA [Pipeline for the Analysis of ctDNA (PACT)] that accurately detects SVs and consistently outperformed similar tools when applied to simulated, cell line, and clinical data. We provide PACT in the form of a Common Workflow Language pipeline which can be run by popular workflow management systems in high-performance computing environments. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: PACT is freely available at https://github.com/ChrisMaherLab/PACT.

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Circulating Tumor DNANeoplasmsBiomarkers, TumorCell LineGenomicsHumansMutationBiomarkers, TumorCirculating Tumor DNA

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PMID37549060
PMCPMC10415172

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