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A Data-Driven Approach to Predicting Successes and Failures of Clinical Trials

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Over the past decade, the rate of drug attrition due to clinical trial failures has risen substantially. Unfortunately it is difficult to identify compounds that have unfavorable toxicity properties before conducting clinical trials. Inspired by the effective use of sabermetrics in predicting successful baseball players, we sought to use a similar "moneyball" approach that analyzes overlooked features to predict clinical toxicity. We introduce a new data-driven approach (PrOCTOR) that directly predicts the likelihood of toxicity in clinical trials. PrOCTOR integrates the properties of a compound's targets and its structure to provide a new measure, the PrOCTOR score. Drug target network connectivity and expression levels, along with molecular weight, were identified as important indicators of adverse clinical events. Our method provides a data-driven, broadly applicable strategy to identify drugs likely to possess manageable toxicity in clinical trials and will help drive the design of therapeutic agents with less toxicity.

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Authors
Gayvert, K. M., Madhukar, N. S., & Elemento, O.
Affiliations
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
  • Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
Corresponding author
Elemento, Olivier
Venue
Cell chemical biology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-10
Volume
23
Issue
10
Pages
1294-1301
ISSN
  • 2451-9448 (ISSN-L)
  • 2451-9456
OpenAlex
W2461620095
Cited by
310
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 46 · 2025: 48 · 2024: 49 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1
FWCI
7.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell chemical biology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • CAREER grant from National Science Foundation (DB1054964)
  • NIH (R01CA194547)
  • Starr Cancer Foundation
  • Institute for Computational Biomedicine
  • PhRMA Foundation Pre Doctoral Informatics Fellowship
  • Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Drug Discovery › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Toxicology › Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reactions
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
Keywords
drug attrition, molecular weight, adverse clinical events, structure-property relationships, drug toxicity
MeSH terms
Clinical Trials as Topic, Humans, Models, Biological, Models, Molecular, Software, Likelihood Functions, Computational Biology, Drug Discovery, Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions

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