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A Next Generation Connectivity Map: L1000 Platform and the First 1,000,000 Profiles.

TL;DR: The expanded CMap is reported, made possible by a new, low-cost, high-throughput reduced representation expression profiling method that is shown to be highly reproducible, comparable to RNA sequencing, and suitable for computational inference of the expression levels of 81% of non-measured transcripts.
About: This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2017-11-30 and is currently open access. It has received 1943 citations till now.
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TL;DR: This novel prognostic scoring system would not only facilitate a more accurate prediction of patient prognosis, but also contribute to the selection of suitable therapeutic alternatives for osteosarcoma patients.
Abstract: With the recent emphasis on the importance of personalized genomic medicine, studies have performed prognostic stratification using gene signatures in cancers. However, these studies have not considered gene networks with clinical data. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a novel prognostic score using grouped variable selection for patients with osteosarcoma. We assessed messenger RNA (mRNA) expression and clinical data from Gene Expression Omnibus to develop a novel prognostic scoring system for patients with osteosarcoma. Variable selection using Network-Regularized high-dimensional Cox-regression analysis with information regarding gene networks obtained from six large pathway databases was performed. We determined the risk score on the linear combination of regression coefficients and mRNA expression values. Log-rank test, UNO's c-index, and area under the curve (AUC) values were determined to evaluate the discriminatory power between the low- and high-risk groups. A recently reported next-generation Connectivity Map was used to identify future therapeutic targets for osteosarcoma. Our novel model had significantly high discriminatory power in predicting overall survival. An optimal c-index of 0.967 was obtained and time-dependent receiver operating characteristic analysis revealed an acceptable predictive value of AUC between 0.953 and 1.000. Knockdown of BACE2 or ING2 and linifanib treatment may improve the prognosis of patients with osteosarcoma. Herein, this novel prognostic scoring system would not only facilitate a more accurate prediction of patient prognosis, but also contribute to the selection of suitable therapeutic alternatives for osteosarcoma patients.

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  • ...We used a next‐generation Connectivity Map (CMap; https://clue. io) to identify potential therapeutic drugs and targets for osteosarcoma based on our selected gene set, which constitutes the backbone of our prognostic scoring system (Subramanian et al., 2017)....

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  • ...A recently reported next‐ generation Connectivity Map was used to identify future therapeutic targets for osteosarcoma....

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  • ...Thereafter, we identified genes and prospective drugs and research targets for osteosarcoma based on our novel prognostic scoring system, using a next‐generation Connectivity Map (Subramanian et al., 2017)....

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  • ...io) to identify potential therapeutic drugs and targets for osteosarcoma based on our selected gene set, which constitutes the backbone of our prognostic scoring system (Subramanian et al., 2017)....

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TL;DR: Recent efforts infunctional genomics-based approaches to analgesic drug discovery and repurposing are discussed and the potential of computational functional genomics in this field is highlighted including a demonstration of the workflow using a novel R library 'dbtORA'.
Abstract: Persistent pain is a major healthcare problem affecting a fifth of adults worldwide with still limited treatment options. The search for new analgesics increasingly includes the novel research area of functional genomics, which combines data derived from various processes related to DNA sequence, gene expression or protein function and uses advanced methods of data mining and knowledge discovery with the goal of understanding the relationship between the genome and the phenotype. Its use in drug discovery and repurposing for analgesic indications has so far been performed using knowledge discovery in gene function and drug target-related databases; next-generation sequencing; and functional proteomics-based approaches. Here, we discuss recent efforts in functional genomics-based approaches to analgesic drug discovery and repurposing and highlight the potential of computational functional genomics in this field including a demonstration of the workflow using a novel R library 'dbtORA'.

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TL;DR: A Drug-Induced Rhabdomyolysis Atlas (DIRA) is presented that provides DIR-related information, including: a classification scheme for DIR based on drug labeling information; postmarketing surveillance data of DIR; and DIR drug property information.

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TL;DR: It is found that the compound termed streptozotocin may be a key candidate drug targeting on GSK3B for molecular targeted therapy in GI cancer and m5C regulatory proteins are closely related to the ErbB/PI3K–Akt signaling pathway.
Abstract: 5-Methylcytosine (m5C) is a kind of methylation modification that occurs in both DNA and RNA and is present in the highly abundant tRNA and rRNA. It has an important impact on various human diseases including cancer. The function of m5C is modulated by regulatory proteins, including methyltransferases (writers) and special binding proteins (readers). This study aims at comprehensive study of the m5C RNA methylation-related genes and the main pathways under m5C RNA methylation in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. Our result showed that the expression of m5C writers and reader was mostly up-regulated in GI cancer. The NSUN2 gene has the highest proportion of mutations found in GI cancer. Importantly, in liver cancer, higher expression of almost all m5C regulators was significantly associated with lower patient survival rate. In addition, the expression level of m5C-related genes is significantly different at various pathological stages. Finally, we have found through bioinformatics analysis that m5C regulatory proteins are closely related to the ErbB/PI3K-Akt signaling pathway and GSK3B was an important target for m5C regulators. Besides, the compound termed streptozotocin may be a key candidate drug targeting on GSK3B for molecular targeted therapy in GI cancer.

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  • ...The Connectivity Map (CMap) is a gene expression profile database based on interventional gene expression (Subramanian et al., 2017)....

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Junyun Cheng1, Jie Liao1, Xin Shao1, Xiaoyan Lu1, Xiaohui Fan1 
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed comparison of DNA-based barcoding methods for sample multiplexing is presented, focusing on aspects such as sample/cell throughput and gene detection.
Abstract: Barcoding technology has greatly improved the throughput of cells and genes detected in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) studies. Recently, increasing studies have paid more attention to the use of this technology to increase the throughput of samples, as it has greatly reduced the processing time, technical batch effects, and library preparation costs, and lowered the per-sample cost. In this review, the various DNA-based barcoding methods for sample multiplexing are focused on, specifically, on the four major barcoding strategies. A detailed comparison of the barcoding methods is also presented, focusing on aspects such as sample/cell throughput and gene detection, and guidelines for choosing the most appropriate barcoding technique according to the personalized requirements are developed. Finally, the critical applications of sample multiplexing and technical challenges in combinatorial labeling, barcoding in vivo, and multimodal tagging at the spatially resolved resolution, as well as, the future prospects of multiplexed scRNA-seq, for example, prioritizing and predicting the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients of different gender and age are highlighted.

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TL;DR: The Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) method as discussed by the authors focuses on gene sets, that is, groups of genes that share common biological function, chromosomal location, or regulation.
Abstract: Although genomewide RNA expression analysis has become a routine tool in biomedical research, extracting biological insight from such information remains a major challenge. Here, we describe a powerful analytical method called Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) for interpreting gene expression data. The method derives its power by focusing on gene sets, that is, groups of genes that share common biological function, chromosomal location, or regulation. We demonstrate how GSEA yields insights into several cancer-related data sets, including leukemia and lung cancer. Notably, where single-gene analysis finds little similarity between two independent studies of patient survival in lung cancer, GSEA reveals many biological pathways in common. The GSEA method is embodied in a freely available software package, together with an initial database of 1,325 biologically defined gene sets.

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TL;DR: A new technique called t-SNE that visualizes high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in a two or three-dimensional map, a variation of Stochastic Neighbor Embedding that is much easier to optimize, and produces significantly better visualizations by reducing the tendency to crowd points together in the center of the map.
Abstract: We present a new technique called “t-SNE” that visualizes high-dimensional data by giving each datapoint a location in a two or three-dimensional map. The technique is a variation of Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (Hinton and Roweis, 2002) that is much easier to optimize, and produces significantly better visualizations by reducing the tendency to crowd points together in the center of the map. t-SNE is better than existing techniques at creating a single map that reveals structure at many different scales. This is particularly important for high-dimensional data that lie on several different, but related, low-dimensional manifolds, such as images of objects from multiple classes seen from multiple viewpoints. For visualizing the structure of very large datasets, we show how t-SNE can use random walks on neighborhood graphs to allow the implicit structure of all of the data to influence the way in which a subset of the data is displayed. We illustrate the performance of t-SNE on a wide variety of datasets and compare it with many other non-parametric visualization techniques, including Sammon mapping, Isomap, and Locally Linear Embedding. The visualizations produced by t-SNE are significantly better than those produced by the other techniques on almost all of the datasets.

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TL;DR: The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) project was initiated in response to the growing demand for a public repository for high-throughput gene expression data and provides a flexible and open design that facilitates submission, storage and retrieval of heterogeneous data sets from high-power gene expression and genomic hybridization experiments.
Abstract: The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) project was initiated in response to the growing demand for a public repository for high-throughput gene expression data. GEO provides a flexible and open design that facilitates submission, storage and retrieval of heterogeneous data sets from high-throughput gene expression and genomic hybridization experiments. GEO is not intended to replace in house gene expression databases that benefit from coherent data sets, and which are constructed to facilitate a particular analytic method, but rather complement these by acting as a tertiary, central data distribution hub. The three central data entities of GEO are platforms, samples and series, and were designed with gene expression and genomic hybridization experiments in mind. A platform is, essentially, a list of probes that define what set of molecules may be detected. A sample describes the set of molecules that are being probed and references a single platform used to generate its molecular abundance data. A series organizes samples into the meaningful data sets which make up an experiment. The GEO repository is publicly accessible through the World Wide Web at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo.

10,968 citations

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TL;DR: How BLAT was optimized is described, which is more accurate and 500 times faster than popular existing tools for mRNA/DNA alignments and 50 times faster for protein alignments at sensitivity settings typically used when comparing vertebrate sequences.
Abstract: Analyzing vertebrate genomes requires rapid mRNA/DNA and cross-species protein alignments A new tool, BLAT, is more accurate and 500 times faster than popular existing tools for mRNA/DNA alignments and 50 times faster for protein alignments at sensitivity settings typically used when comparing vertebrate sequences BLAT's speed stems from an index of all nonoverlapping K-mers in the genome This index fits inside the RAM of inexpensive computers, and need only be computed once for each genome assembly BLAT has several major stages It uses the index to find regions in the genome likely to be homologous to the query sequence It performs an alignment between homologous regions It stitches together these aligned regions (often exons) into larger alignments (typically genes) Finally, BLAT revisits small internal exons possibly missed at the first stage and adjusts large gap boundaries that have canonical splice sites where feasible This paper describes how BLAT was optimized Effects on speed and sensitivity are explored for various K-mer sizes, mismatch schemes, and number of required index matches BLAT is compared with other alignment programs on various test sets and then used in several genome-wide applications http://genomeucscedu hosts a web-based BLAT server for the human genome

8,326 citations

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TL;DR: This paper proposed parametric and non-parametric empirical Bayes frameworks for adjusting data for batch effects that is robust to outliers in small sample sizes and performs comparable to existing methods for large samples.
Abstract: SUMMARY Non-biological experimental variation or “batch effects” are commonly observed across multiple batches of microarray experiments, often rendering the task of combining data from these batches difficult. The ability to combine microarray data sets is advantageous to researchers to increase statistical power to detect biological phenomena from studies where logistical considerations restrict sample size or in studies that require the sequential hybridization of arrays. In general, it is inappropriate to combine data sets without adjusting for batch effects. Methods have been proposed to filter batch effects from data, but these are often complicated and require large batch sizes (>25) to implement. Because the majority of microarray studies are conducted using much smaller sample sizes, existing methods are not sufficient. We propose parametric and non-parametric empirical Bayes frameworks for adjusting data for batch effects that is robust to outliers in small sample sizes and performs comparable to existing methods for large samples. We illustrate our methods using two example data sets and show that our methods are justifiable, easy to apply, and useful in practice. Software for our method is freely available at: http://biosun1.harvard.edu/complab/batch/.

6,319 citations

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