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- Title
OncoRep: an n-of-1 reporting tool to support genome-guided treatment for breast cancer patients using RNA-sequencing.
- Authors
Meißner, Tobias; Fisch, Kathleen M.; Gioia, Louis; Su, Andrew I.
- Abstract
Background: Breast cancer comprises multiple tumor entities associated with different biological features and clinical behaviors, making individualized medicine a powerful tool to bring the right drug to the right patient. Next generation sequencing of RNA (RNA-Seq) is a suitable method to detect targets for individualized treatment. Challenges that arise are i) preprocessing and analyzing RNA-Seq data in the n-of-1 setting, ii) extracting clinically relevant and actionable targets from complex data, iii) integrating drug databases, and iv) reporting results to clinicians in a timely and understandable manner. Results: To address these challenges, we present OncoRep, an RNA-Seq based n-of-1 reporting tool for breast cancer patients. It reports molecular classification, altered genes and pathways, gene fusions, clinically actionable mutations and drug recommendations. It visualizes the data in an approachable html-based interactive report and a PDF clinical report, providing the clinician and tumor board with a tool to guide the treatment decision making process. Conclusions: OncoRep is free and open-source (https://bitbucket.org/sulab/oncorep/), thereby offering a platform for future development and innovation by the community.
- Subjects
BREAST cancer research; INDIVIDUALIZED medicine; RNA sequencing; GENOMICS; CANCER research
- Publication
BMC Medical Genomics, 2015, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1755-8794
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12920-015-0095-z