A recent study conducted by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), introduces a new web-based software tool, CellMiner, aimed at improving the "capacity to compare data derived from large collections of genomic information against thousands of drugs." Dr. Yves Pommier comments on the significance of this new tool by emphasizing that researchers can now analyze drug responses and compare various drugs on a very minute level (i.e. gene to gene). In the past, a bioinformatics team was required to filter through all of the data.
CellMiner can be accessed by clicking here. More information on this study is available here.
Study mentioned: Reinhold WC et al. CellMiner: A web-based suite of genomic and pharmacologic tools to explore transcript and drug patterns in the NCI-60 cell line set. Cancer Res. 2012 Jul 15;72(14):3499-511. PMID 22802077
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