Dataset: Assessment of pharmacogenomic agreement
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**Abstract**
In 2013 we published an analysis demonstrating that drug response data and
gene-drug associations reported in two independent large-scale
pharmacogenomic screens, Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC)
and Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE), were inconsistent. The GDSC and
CCLE investigators recently reported that their respective studies exhibit
reasonable agreement and yield similar molecular predictors of drug response,
seemingly contradicting our previous findings. Reanalyzing the authors’
published methods and results, we found that their analysis failed to account
for variability in the genomic data and more importantly compared different drug
sensitivity measures from each study, which substantially deviate from our
more stringent consistency assessment. Our comparison of the most updated
genomic and pharmacological data from the GDSC and CCLE confirms our
published findings that the measures of drug response reported by these two
groups are not consistent. We believe that a principled approach to assess the
reproducibility of drug sensitivity predictors is necessary before envisioning
their translation into clinical settings.
Read the [full-text publication][1] by Zhaleh Safikhani et al. (*F1000Research*, 2016) for more details.
**Data availability**
[Documented R code used to generate all the analysis results and figures][2]
[Spreadsheet containing all the cell lines investigated in Haibe-Kains et al, Nature 2013.][3]
[1]: http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8705.1
[2]: https://osf.io/en596/
[3]: https://osf.io/7wyk4/