Agreement between two large pan-cancer CRISPR-Cas9 gene dependency data sets

Integrating independent large-scale pharmacogenomic screens can enable unprecedented characterization of genetic vulnerabilities in cancers. Here, the authors show that the two largest independent CRISPR-Cas9 gene-dependency screens are concordant, paving the way for joint analysis of the data sets.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joshua M. Dempster, Clare Pacini, Sasha Pantel, Fiona M. Behan, Thomas Green, John Krill-Burger, Charlotte M. Beaver, Scott T. Younger, Victor Zhivich, Hanna Najgebauer, Felicity Allen, Emanuel Gonçalves, Rebecca Shepherd, John G. Doench, Kosuke Yusa, Francisca Vazquez, Leopold Parts, Jesse S. Boehm, Todd R. Golub, William C. Hahn, David E. Root, Mathew J. Garnett, Aviad Tsherniak, Francesco Iorio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13805-y