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- Title
A community computational challenge to predict the activity of pairs of compounds.
- Authors
Bansal, Mukesh; Alvarez, Mariano J; Shen, Yao; Gallahan, Daniel; Singer, Dinah; Stolovitzky, Gustavo; Califano, Andrea; Yang, Jichen; Tang, Hao; Xiao, Guanghua; Allen, Jeffrey; Zhong, Rui; Chen, Beibei; Wang, Tao; Karan, Charles; Realubit, Ronald; Menden, Michael P; Saez-Rodriguez, Julio; Costello, James C; Li, Yajuan
- Abstract
Recent therapeutic successes have renewed interest in drug combinations, but experimental screening approaches are costly and often identify only small numbers of synergistic combinations. The DREAM consortium launched an open challenge to foster the development of in silico methods to computationally rank 91 compound pairs, from the most synergistic to the most antagonistic, based on gene-expression profiles of human B cells treated with individual compounds at multiple time points and concentrations. Using scoring metrics based on experimental dose-response curves, we assessed 32 methods (31 community-generated approaches and SynGen), four of which performed significantly better than random guessing. We highlight similarities between the methods. Although the accuracy of predictions was not optimal, we find that computational prediction of compound-pair activity is possible, and that community challenges can be useful to advance the field of in silico compound-synergy prediction.
- Subjects
COMPUTATIONAL biology; BIOACTIVE compounds; DRUG development; THERAPEUTICS research; B cells; GENE expression profiling; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2014, Vol 32, Issue 12, p1213
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt.3052