Methods for high-throughput drug combination screening and synergy scoring

L He, E Kulesskiy, J Saarela, L Turunen… - Cancer systems biology …, 2018 - Springer
Gene products or pathways that are aberrantly activated in cancer but not in normal tissue
hold great promises for being effective and safe anticancer therapeutic targets. Many …

Drug combination sensitivity scoring facilitates the discovery of synergistic and efficacious drug combinations in cancer

A Malyutina, MM Majumder, W Wang… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
High-throughput drug screening has facilitated the discovery of drug combinations in cancer.
Many existing studies adopted a full matrix design, aiming for the characterization of drug …

SynergyFinder: a web application for analyzing drug combination dose–response matrix data

A Ianevski, L He, T Aittokallio, J Tang - Bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Rational design of drug combinations has become a promising strategy to tackle the drug
sensitivity and resistance problem in cancer treatment. To systematically evaluate the pre …

SynergyFinder plus: toward better interpretation and annotation of drug combination screening datasets

S Zheng, W Wang, J Aldahdooh… - Genomics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Combinatorial therapies have been recently proposed to improve the efficacy of anticancer
treatment. The SynergyFinder R package is a software used to analyze pre-clinical drug …

Large-scale pan-cancer cell line screening identifies actionable and effective drug combinations

AC Bashi, EA Coker, KC Bulusu, P Jaaks, C Crafter… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Oncology drug combinations can improve therapeutic responses and increase treatment
options for patients. The number of possible combinations is vast and responses can be …

Systems pharmacology: defining the interactions of drug combinations

JGC Van Hasselt, R Iyengar - Annual review of pharmacology …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The majority of diseases are associated with alterations in multiple molecular pathways and
complex interactions at the cellular and organ levels. Single-target monotherapies therefore …

Independent drug action in combination therapy: implications for precision oncology

D Plana, AC Palmer, PK Sorger - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Combination therapies are superior to monotherapy for many cancers. This advantage was
historically ascribed to the ability of combinations to address tumor heterogeneity, but …

A computational approach for identifying synergistic drug combinations

KM Gayvert, O Aly, J Platt, MW Bosenberg… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
A promising alternative to address the problem of acquired drug resistance is to rely on
combination therapies. Identification of the right combinations is often accomplished through …

Systems biology approaches for advancing the discovery of effective drug combinations

KA Ryall, AC Tan - Journal of cheminformatics, 2015 - Springer
Complex diseases like cancer are regulated by large, interconnected networks with many
pathways affecting cell proliferation, invasion, and drug resistance. However, current cancer …

Predictive approaches for drug combination discovery in cancer

SA Madani Tonekaboni, L Soltan Ghoraie… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Drug combinations have been proposed as a promising therapeutic strategy to overcome
drug resistance and improve efficacy of monotherapy regimens in cancer. This strategy aims …