SBCDDB: Sleeping Beauty Cancer Driver Database for gene discovery in mouse models of human cancers

Justin Y. Newberg, Karen M. Mann, Michael B. Mann, Nancy A. Jenkins, Neal G. Copeland

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Abstract

Large-scale oncogenomic studies have identified few frequently mutated cancer drivers and hundreds of infrequently mutated drivers. Defining the biological context for rare driving events is fundamentally important to increasing our understanding of the druggable pathways in cancer. Sleeping Beauty (SB) insertional mutagenesis is a powerful gene discovery tool used to model human cancers in mice. Our lab and others have published a number of studies that identify cancer drivers from these models using various statistical and computational approaches. Here, we have integrated SB data from primary tumor models into an analysis and reporting framework, the Sleeping Beauty Cancer Driver DataBase (SBCDDB, http://sbcddb.moffitt.org), which identifies drivers in individual tumors or tumor populations. Unique to this effort, the SBCDDB utilizes a single, scalable, statistical analysis method that enables data to be grouped by different biological properties. This allows for SB drivers to be evaluated (and re-evaluated) under different contexts. The SBCDDB provides visual representations highlighting the spatial attributes of transposon mutagenesis and couples this functionality with analysis of gene sets, enabling users to interrogate relationships between drivers. The SBCDDB is a powerful resource for comparative oncogenomic analyses with human cancer genomics datasets for driver prioritization.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)D1011-D1017
JournalNucleic Acids Research
Volume46
Issue numberD1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 4 2018

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Genetics

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