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octad

Open Cancer TherApeutic Discovery (OCTAD)

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.14.0

OCTAD provides a platform for virtually screening compounds targeting precise cancer patient groups. The essential idea is to identify drugs that reverse the gene expression signature of disease by tamping down over-expressed genes and stimulating weakly expressed ones. The package offers deep-learning based reference tissue selection, disease gene expression signature creation, pathway enrichment analysis, drug reversal potency scoring, cancer cell line selection, drug enrichment analysis and in silico hit validation. It currently covers ~20,000 patient tissue samples covering 50 cancer types, and expression profiles for ~12,000 distinct compounds.

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("octad")

Details

MaintainerE. Chekalin <eygen.chekalin@gmail.com>
AuthorE. Chekalin [aut, cre], S. Paithankar [aut], B. Zeng [aut], B. Glicksberg [ctb], P. Newbury [ctb], J. Xing [ctb], K. Liu [ctb], A. Wen [ctb], D. Joseph [ctb], B. Chen [aut]
LicenseArtistic-2.0
Downloads rank269
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsClassification, GeneExpression, GeneSetEnrichment, Pharmacogenetics, Pharmacogenomics, Software

Documentation

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Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.2.0), magrittr, dplyr, ggplot2, edgeR, RUVSeq, DESeq2, limma, rhdf5, foreach, Rfast, octad.db, stats, httr, qpdf, ExperimentHub, AnnotationHub, Biobase, S4Vectors

Imports: EDASeq, GSVA, data.table, htmlwidgets, plotly, reshape2, grDevices, utils

Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown