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Informatics Approaches for Predicting, Understanding, and Testing Cancer Drug Combinations.

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Making cancer treatment more effective is one of the grand challenges in our health care system. However, many drugs have entered clinical trials but so far showed limited efficacy or… Click to show full abstract

Making cancer treatment more effective is one of the grand challenges in our health care system. However, many drugs have entered clinical trials but so far showed limited efficacy or induced rapid development of resistance. We urgently need multi-targeted drug combinations, which shall selectively inhibit the cancer cells and block the emergence of drug resistance. The book chapter focuses on mathematical and computational tools to facilitate the discovery of the most promising drug combinations to improve efficacy and prevent resistance. Data integration approaches that leverage drug-target interactions, cancer molecular features, and signaling pathways for predicting, understanding, and testing drug combinations are critically reviewed.

Keywords: predicting understanding; informatics approaches; drug; cancer; understanding testing; drug combinations

Journal Title: Methods in molecular biology
Year Published: 2017

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