ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2026
tugMedi: simulator of cancer-cell evolution for personalized medicine based on the genomic data of patients.
Article in NPJ systems biology and applications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Cancer comprehensive genomic profiling tests are increasingly used, but drug response rates to matched therapies remain limited, indicating a gap between genomic data and clinical benefit. However, existing cancer evolution simulations focus mainly on basic biology and rarely provide patient‑specific predictions for therapy response. We present tugMedi, a cancer‑cell evolution simulator designed for cancer genome medicine. Integrating patient‑specific genomic data from next‑generation sequencing and radiological imaging, tugMedi reconstructs tumor features and growth, enabling real‑time predictions of clonal dynamics under drug interventions. It explicitly models copy number alterations and SNVs on parental chromosomes with recessive/dominant modes, capturing intra‑tumor heterogeneity and loss‑of‑heterozygosity to yield precise variant allele frequencies and tumor purity estimates. Synthetic tests confirmed recovery of ground‑truth tumor parameters and trajectories. For TCGA samples, tugMedi provided ensemble forecasts of drug response, tumor shrinkage, and recurrence times under specific drug conditions, demonstrating the feasibility of simulation‑driven genome medicine using patient‑derived virtual tumors.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.