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vulcanSpot: a tool to prioritize therapeutic vulnerabilities in cancer

Perales-Paton, Javier; Di Domenico, Tomas; Fustero-Torre, Coral; Pineiro-Yanez, Elena; Carretero-Puche, Carlos; Tejero, Hector; Valencia, Alfonso; Gomez-Lopez, Gonzalo; Al-Shahrour, Fatima

BIOINFORMATICS
2019
VL / 35 - BP / 4846 - EP / 4848
abstract
Motivation: Genetic alterations lead to tumor progression and cell survival but also uncover cancer-specific vulnerabilities on gene dependencies that can be therapeutically exploited. Results: vulcanSpot is a novel computational approach implemented to expand the therapeutic options in cancer beyond known-driver genes unlocking alternative ways to target undruggable genes. The method integrates genome-wide information provided by massive screening experiments to detect genetic vulnerabilities associated to tumors. Then, vulcanSpot prioritizes drugs to target cancer-specific gene dependencies using a weighted scoring system based on well known drug-gene relationships and drug repositioning strategies.

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Gold other, Green published

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