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The Connectivity Map: a new tool for biomedical research

Justin Lamb
- 01 Jan 2007 - 
- Vol. 7, Iss: 1, pp 54-60
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The Connectivity Map project set out to answer the questions of how the screening process for biomedical research could be systematized and centralized, and hits found and hypotheses generated with something resembling an internet search engine.
Abstract
The ultimate objective of biomedical research is to connect human diseases with the genes that underlie them and drugs that treat them. But this remains a daunting task, and even the most inspired researchers still have to resort to laborious screens of genetic or chemical libraries. What if at least some parts of this screening process could be systematized and centralized? And hits found and hypotheses generated with something resembling an internet search engine? These are the questions the Connectivity Map project set out to answer.

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Survivin, cancer networks and pathway-directed drug discovery.

TL;DR: Pursuing the nodal functions of survivin in cancer might lead to the development of global pathway inhibitors with unique therapeutic potential.
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ChEA: transcription factor regulation inferred from integrating genome-wide ChIP-X experiments

TL;DR: The ChEA database allowed us to reconstruct an initial network of transcription factors connected based on shared overlapping targets and binding site proximity, and it is shown how by combining the Connectivity Map with ChEA, it can rank pairs of compounds to be used to target specific transcription factor activity in cancer cells.
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Discovery of drug mode of action and drug repositioning from transcriptional responses

TL;DR: This work developed an automatic and robust approach that exploits similarity in gene expression profiles following drug treatment, across multiple cell lines and dosages, to predict similarities in drug effect and MoA, and correctly predicted the MoA for nine anticancer compounds and was able to discover an unreported effect for a well-known drug.
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PREDICT: a method for inferring novel drug indications with application to personalized medicine.

TL;DR: A novel method for the large‐scale prediction of drug indications (PREDICT) that can handle both approved drugs and novel molecules and lays the computational foundation for future personalized drug treatments, where gene expression signatures from individual patients would replace the disease‐specific signatures.
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