Journal
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE
Volume 1864, Issue 6, Pages 2315-2328Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2018.01.020
Keywords
Systems biology; Immunotherapy; Therapy resistance; Melanoma; Network genomics; Databases
Funding
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [0316171, 031L0073A, 031L0073B]
- Universitatsklinikum Erlangen (ELAN funds) [14-07-22-1]
- Staedtler Stiftung [WW/eh 30/16]
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Cellular phenotypes are established and controlled by complex and precisely orchestrated molecular networks. In cancer, mutations and dysregulations of multiple molecular factors perturb the regulation of these networks and lead to malignant transformation. High-throughput technologies are a valuable source of information to establish the complex molecular relationships behind the emergence of malignancy, but full exploitation of this massive amount of data requires bioinformatics tools that rely on network-based analyses. In this report we present the Virtual Melanoma Cell, an online tool developed to facilitate the mining and interpretation of high-throughput data on melanoma by biomedical researches. The platform is based on a comprehensive, manually generated and expert-validated regulatory map composed of signaling pathways important in malignant melanoma. The Virtual Melanoma Cell is a tool designed to accept, visualize and analyze user-generated datasets. It is available at: https://www.vcells.net/melanoma. To illustrate the utilization of the web platform and the regulatory map, we have analyzed a large publicly available dataset accounting for anti-PD1 immunotherapy treatment of malignant melanoma patients.
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