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Computational correction of copy number effect improves specificity of CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens in cancer cells.

Robin M Meyers1, Jordan G Bryan1, James M McFarland1, Barbara A Weir1, Ann E Sizemore1, Han Xu1, Neekesh V Dharia1,2,3,4, Phillip G Montgomery1, Glenn S Cowley1, Sasha Pantel1, Amy Goodale1, Yenarae Lee1, Levi D Ali1, Guozhi Jiang1, Rakela Lubonja1, William F Harrington1, Matthew Strickland1, Ting Wu1, Derek C Hawes1, Victor A Zhivich1, Meghan R Wyatt1, Zohra Kalani1, Jaime J Chang1, Michael Okamoto1, Kimberly Stegmaier1,2,3,4, Todd R Golub1,2,3,4,5, Jesse S Boehm1, Francisca Vazquez1,2, David E Root1, William C Hahn1,2,4,6, Aviad Tsherniak1.   

Abstract

The CRISPR-Cas9 system has revolutionized gene editing both at single genes and in multiplexed loss-of-function screens, thus enabling precise genome-scale identification of genes essential for proliferation and survival of cancer cells. However, previous studies have reported that a gene-independent antiproliferative effect of Cas9-mediated DNA cleavage confounds such measurement of genetic dependency, thereby leading to false-positive results in copy number-amplified regions. We developed CERES, a computational method to estimate gene-dependency levels from CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens while accounting for the copy number-specific effect. In our efforts to define a cancer dependency map, we performed genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens across 342 cancer cell lines and applied CERES to this data set. We found that CERES decreased false-positive results and estimated sgRNA activity for both this data set and previously published screens performed with different sgRNA libraries. We further demonstrate the utility of this collection of screens, after CERES correction, for identifying cancer-type-specific vulnerabilities.

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Year:  2017        PMID: 29083409      PMCID: PMC5709193          DOI: 10.1038/ng.3984

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Nat Genet        ISSN: 1061-4036            Impact factor:   38.330


Significant efforts using loss-of-function genetic screens to systematically identify genes essential to the proliferation and survival of cancer cells have been reported[1-10]. Genes identified by these approaches may represent specific genetic vulnerabilities of cancer cells, suggesting treatment strategies and directing the development of novel therapeutics. The CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system has proven to be a powerful tool for multiplexed screening due to its relative ease of application and increased specificity compared to RNA interference technology[11]. However, we and others have recently observed that measurements of cell proliferation in genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 loss-of-function screens are influenced by the genomic copy number (CN) of the region targeted by the sgRNA-Cas9 complex[1,3,4]. Targeting Cas9 to DNA sequences within regions of high CN gain creates multiple DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), inducing a gene-independent DNA damage response and a G2 cell-cycle arrest phenotype[3]. This systematic, sequence-independent effect due to DNA cleavage (copy-number effect) confounds the measurement of the consequences of gene deletion on cell viability (gene-knockout effect) and is detectable even among low-level CN amplifications and deletions. In particular, this phenomenon hinders interpretation of experiments performed in cancer cell lines that harbor many genomic amplifications since genes in these regions represent a major source of false positives[3,4]. Existing methods to handle the copy-number effect adopt filtering schemes[9], which preclude examination of data from within amplified regions and ignore the effect at low-level alterations. Here, we present CERES, a method to estimate gene dependency from essentiality screens while computationally correcting the copy-number effect, enabling unbiased interpretation of gene dependency at all levels of CN. As part of our efforts to define a Cancer Dependency Map, a catalog of cell line-specific genetic and chemical vulnerabilities[10,12], we performed genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 loss-of-function screens in 342 cancer cell lines representing 27 cell lineages (Supplementary Table 1, http://depmap.org/ceres) using the Avana sgRNA library[13] (Supplementary Table 2) and assessed the effects of introducing each sgRNA on cell proliferation (Online Methods). After applying quality control measures, ROC analysis of sgRNAs targeting “gold standard” common core essential and nonessential genes[14] demonstrated high screen quality in all cell lines (Fig. 1a). This collection of screens surpasses the scale of existing comparable datasets by roughly tenfold. To confirm the generalizability of our results in independent screens performed with different sgRNA libraries, we reanalyzed two published datasets derived from screens across 33 cancer cell lines of diverse cell lineage (GeCKOv2) [3] and 14 AML cell lines (Wang2017) [9] (Supplementary Fig. 1a).
Figure 1

Genomic copy number confounds the interpretation of CRISPR-Cas9 loss-of-function proliferation screens of cancer cell lines

(a) Screen quality for each cell line in the panel (n=342), as measured by area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) in discriminating between predefined sets of common core essential and nonessential genes. (b) The depletion of sgRNAs is regressed against the number of perfect-match genomic cut sites using a simple saturating linear fit, which is plotted for each cell line, colored by lineage, and scaled such that the median of sgRNAs targeting cell-essential genes is at −1, marked by a dashed line. (c) Genes are ranked by the mean depletion of targeting sgRNAs (average guide score) and plotted for an example cell line. Values of 0 and −1 represent the median scores of nonessential and cell-essential genes, respectively, indicated by dashed lines. Below, depletion ranks of genes involved in fundamental cell processes and genes at various ranges of CN amplification are shown. (d) The median and interquartile range (IQR) of depletion ranks for the 100 most amplified genes per cell line are plotted. Color indicates mean amplification level of these genes. The gray-shaded area indicates the IQR of all genes screened.

Using genomic copy number data from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE)[15], we assessed the 342 cell lines screened in our Avana dataset for sensitivity to the copy-number effect as in Aguirre et al. [3]. In consonance with previous observations, the relationship held in every cell line in our panel, where sgRNAs targeting more genomic loci were on average more depleted, frequently to levels at or below the depletion of sgRNAs targeting cell-essential genes (Fig. 1b, Supplementary Fig. 1b,c). In each of the three datasets, some of the observed variability in sensitivity was explained by the p53 mutational status of each line in CCLE (Supplementary Fig. 1d). To quantify the extent to which this sgRNA-level effect translates into false positive gene dependencies, we ranked the genes in each cell line by the average depletion of their targeting sgRNAs (average guide score). In an example breast cancer cell line, HCC1419, high-ranking genes were enriched for both genes involved in fundamental cellular processes and genes with amplified CN (Fig. 1c). The depletion ranks of the 100 genes with the largest CN measurements were significantly higher than expected for the majority of cell lines (298/342 with p < 0.05, one-sample one-tailed K-S test; Fig. 1d, Supplementary Fig. 2a) and the extent of enrichment was significantly correlated with the average CN of these genes (Spearman ρ = 0.61, p < 10−15), consistent with previous studies (Supplementary Fig. 2b). To decouple the gene-knockout effect from the copy-number effect, we developed CERES, which computationally models the measured sgRNA depletion (D) as a sum of these two effects (Fig. 2, Online Methods). Specifically, for each sgRNA i and cell line j, CERES assumes the following model (Equation 1): where ε is a zero-mean, independent Gaussian noise term. The gene-knockout effect is a sum of cell line specific (g) and shared (h) effects, which are aggregated across any gene targeted by sgRNA i (G). The copy-number effect is modeled by a piecewise linear spline, f, evaluated at the number of genomic sites targeted, determined by the target loci (L) and the CN at each locus (C) (Online Methods). The cumulative depletion effects are then scaled by a guide activity score (q), restricted to values between 0 and 1, to capture and mitigate the influence of low-quality reagents[13,16,17]. The offset term o accounts for noise in the measurement of sgRNA abundance in the reference pool (Online Methods). CERES infers the gene-knockout effects and all other parameters by fitting the model to the observed data via alternating least squares regression (Online Methods). The inferred gene-knockout effects are then scaled per cell line such that scores of 0 and −1 represent the median effects of nonessential genes and common core essential genes, respectively.
Figure 2

Schematic of the CERES computational model

As input, CERES takes sgRNA depletion and CN data for all cell lines screened. During the inference procedure, CERES models the depletion values as a sum of gene-knockout and copy-number effects, multiplied by a guide activity score parameter. CERES then outputs the values of the parameters that produce the highest likelihood of the observed data under the model.

We applied CERES to the Avana dataset of 342 essentiality screens, as well as the GeCKOv2 and Wang2017 datasets, and analyzed the inferred gene-knockout effects (Supplementary Tables 3–5). As expected, CERES markedly reduced the relationship between CN and gene dependency found in the uncorrected average guide scores (Fig. 3a, Supplementary Fig. 3a) and removed it nearly entirely among unexpressed genes, determined using CCLE expression data (Supplementary Fig. 3b). For each gene, we correlated its CN measurements to its dependency scores before and after correction and found that CERES shifted the mean correlation to near zero (Supplementary Fig. 3c). CERES also improved the identification of essential genes in 339 out of 342 screens, as measured by the recall of common core essential genes at a 5% false discovery rate (FDR) of nonessential genes[2], by an average of 13.8 percentage points (Fig. 3b, Supplementary Fig. 4a) (Online Methods). This improvement was substantially better than a simple linear model used to correct the relationship between average guide score and CN (Supplementary Fig. 4b) (Online Methods). Furthermore, CERES preserved an average of 134 genes per cell line that would have been removed using a simple filtering scheme. On average, six of these filtered genes per cell line scored as essential below a threshold of −0.6 after CERES correction (Supplementary Fig. 4c). Reassuringly, CERES preserved expected cancer-specific dependencies, even in amplified regions, such as KRAS in an example amplification on chromosome 12p of the DAN-G pancreatic cancer cell line (Fig. 3c, Supplementary Fig. 5). Additionally, KRAS-mutant cell lines remained substantially enriched over wild-type for KRAS gene dependency (Fig. 3d), which generalized to other known oncogenes (Supplementary Fig. 6).
Figure 3

CERES corrects the copy-number effect and improves the specificity of fCRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens while preserving true gene dependencies

(a) Boxplots of gene dependency scores are shown across CN for uncorrected average guide scores and CERES gene dependency scores. Data are scaled as in Fig. 1c. (b) The recall of cell-essential genes at a 5% FDR of nonessential genes is plotted for each cell line before (red) and after (blue) CERES correction. Precision-recall curves are inset for example cell lines with poor recall (bottom left) and good recall (top right) before CERES correction. (c) An example amplified region on chromosome 12p is shown for the DAN-G pancreatic cell line. The top track represents CN with amplifications shown in red. The middle track and bottom tracks show the average guide score and CERES score, respectively, for each gene in this region. The purple line is representing the median value in each CN segment. KRAS is highlighted in orange. (d) KRAS gene dependency and CN are shown for all cell lines after CERES correction, with mutant KRAS lines in orange.

CERES estimates a guide activity score for each sgRNA used in the screens (Supplementary Tables 6–8). While it is infeasible to experimentally validate the activity of all, or even most, sgRNAs in a genome-scale library, sequence determinants have proven useful in the prediction of on-target activity[13,18,19]. The Avana sgRNA library was optimized using such predictions. Fittingly, CERES estimated higher guide activity scores on average for the Avana dataset relative to GeCKOv2, with a nearly twenty-fold increase in the ratio of high- to low-activity sgRNAs (161.3 to 1 and 8.3 to 1; Fig. 4a). The guide activity scores for the 4,770 sgRNAs common to both libraries showed substantial agreement (Spearman ρ = 0.53, p < 10−15; Fig. 4b), demonstrating that CERES captured a measure of sgRNA activity that is reproducible across independent collections of screens (Supplementary Fig. 7a,b). For both the GeCKOv2 and Avana libraries, we compared CERES guide activity scores to sequence-based predictions of sgRNA activity (Doench-Root scores) [13] and found significant correspondence (Avana: Pearson ρ = 0.21, p < 10−15; GeCKOv2: Pearson ρ = 0.37, p < 10−15; Fig. 4c). Taken together, these results demonstrate that the guide activity scores inferred by CERES are useful for estimating gene-knockout effects and, furthermore, suggests that they could assist in the selection of reagents for follow-up experiments.
Figure 4

CERES estimates guide activity scores for each sgRNA

(a) sgRNAs are binned into groups with high (0.9–1), moderate (0.2–0.9), and low (0–0.2) guide activity scores. The compositions of guide activity scores are shown for the set of screens performed with the GeCKOv2 and the Avana sgRNA libraries. (b) For the set of 4,770 sgRNAs shared between the GeCKOv2 and Avana libraries, sgRNAs are ranked by guide activity scores in each dataset and are plotted against each other, with darker blue representing a greater density of sgRNAs. (c) sgRNAs are binned by predicted on-target activity using the Doench-Root score, and the composition of CERES-estimated guide activity scores is shown for each dataset.

To identify cancer-specific genetic vulnerabilities, we used a metric of differential dependency representing the strength of dependency in a cell line relative to all other lines screened (Online Methods). We assessed an upper bound on the number of false positive differential dependencies due to CN amplifications by calculating the percentage of amplified genes at every possible threshold of differential dependency. In the uncorrected data, the percentage of amplified genes increased at stronger dependency thresholds, climbing above 30% at the highest levels of differential dependency, which CERES substantially reduces (Fig. 5a, Supplementary Fig. 8a). We next used a similar procedure to examine unexpressed genes, whose deletion or editing is not expected to induce phenotypic effects, and which represent an overt source of false positives if scored as differentially dependent. We found that for genes below a differential dependency of −8, CERES reduced the percentage of unexpressed genes from 6.6% to 0.9%, indicating a substantial improvement in specificity (Fig. 5b, Supplementary Fig. 8b).
Figure 5

CERES reduces false positive differential dependencies

(a) The percentage of genes on amplified regions (CN > 4) below a given differential dependency threshold is plotted for the uncorrected average guide score in red and the CERES gene dependency score in blue. (b) The percentage of unexpressed genes (log2RPKM < −1) below a given differential dependency score is plotted as in (a).

A dataset of this scale enables the discovery of genetic vulnerabilities specific to a subset of cancer cell lines defined by some cellular context, such as cell lineage. We hypothesized that in this setting, copy-number effects driven by recurrent CN alterations, even with small effect sizes, could introduce false positives. For each gene, we compared average guide scores in 26 breast cancer cell lines to those of all other cell lines (Online methods). Indeed, we found several differential dependencies resident on chromosome 8q, which is recurrently amplified in breast tumors (Fig. 6a). However, when we used CERES-corrected dependency scores, we found that only two of the original chr8q genes, TRPS1 and GRHL2, remained (Fig. 6b). To confirm this finding using a complementary assay, we analyzed this set of genes in a dataset derived from genome-scale RNAi screens across 501 cancer cell lines[20]. We found that these were the only two genes on chr8q that scored as differentially dependent in the 34 breast lines, while most genes in other regions validated (Supplementary Fig. 9a,b). Previous studies have implicated these transcription factors in breast cancer progression[21,22], and the high expression levels of these and other transcription factors in breast lines identified suggest that they are likely to be true differential dependencies (Supplementary Fig. 9c). We extended this analysis to all cell lineages with recurrently amplified chromosome arms and quantified the enrichment of differential dependencies before and after CERES correction in each context. We observed that CERES reduced the fraction of differential dependencies on the recurrently amplified chromosome arm in 24 out of 25 such cases (Fig. 6c) (Online Methods).
Figure 6

CERES reduces false positives among lineage-specific differential dependencies due to recurrently amplified chromosome arms

(a) The distributions of differential dependencies in breast lines are plotted red for genes on chromosome 8q (commonly gained in breast tumors) and black for all other genes. Below, the differential dependency of each gene is plotted against the FDR-corrected p-value, calculated from a student’s t-test, with colors as above. The dashed line represents an FDR of 5%. (b) Data are shown for CERES-inferred gene effects as in (a). (c) The percentages of lineage-specific differential dependencies (FDR < 0.05) that are on recurrently amplified chromosome arms are shown, before and after CERES correction.

While CERES leverages data across many cell lines to infer guide activity scores, we confirmed that this approach can be applied to datasets of any size - even a screen of a single cell line - given predetermined guide activity scores. These may be pre-computed from a larger set of screens, predicted using available tools, or assumed uniform. In random sub-samplings of cell lines from the Avana dataset, CERES performed nearly as well as when applied to the full set. Furthermore, we tested CERES on single cell lines, using fixed uniform guide activities, and found that the median improvement per cell line was over 97% that of the run on all 342 cell lines (Supplementary Fig 10) (Online Methods). In summary, we introduce a large set of uniformly performed CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screens of cancer cell lines, propose a methodology to estimate gene dependency while removing false positives due to copy-number effects, and demonstrate the power of these two resources in revealing genetic vulnerabilities of cancer. To facilitate the use of the Avana dataset and CERES, we make the software available as an R package at https://depmap.org/ceres, along with all data and analysis scripts used in this study.

Online Methods

CRISPR-Cas9 essentiality screening assay

Cancer cell lines were transduced with a lentiviral vector expressing the Cas9 nuclease under blasticidin selection (pXPR-311Cas9). Each Cas9-expressing cell line was subjected to a Cas9 activity assay[3] to characterize the efficacy of CRISPR/Cas9 in these cell lines (Supplementary Table 1). Cell lines with less than 45% measured Cas9 activity were considered ineligible for screening. Stable polyclonal Cas9+ cell lines were then infected in replicate (n = 3) at low multiplicity of infection (MOI < 1) with a library of 76,106 unique sgRNAs (Avana), which after filtering out sex chromosomes was composed of 70,086 targeting 17,670 genes (~4 sgRNAs per gene) annotated in the consensus coding sequence (CCDS) database, and 995 non-targeting control sgRNAs (Supplementary Table 2). Cells were selected in puromycin and blasticidin for 7 days and then passaged without selection while maintaining a representation of 500 cells per sgRNA until 21 days after infection. Genomic DNA was purified from endpoint cell pellets, the sgRNA barcodes are PCR amplified with sufficient gDNA to maintain representation, and the PCR products are sequenced using standard Illumina machines and protocols.

Preprocessing and quality control

After sequencing the sgRNA barcodes, raw barcode counts are deconvoluted from sequence data using PoolQ software (http://portals.broadinstitute.org/gpp/public/dir/download?dirpath=protocols/screening&filename=Pooled_Screening_Deconvolution_using_PoolQ.pdf) and are summed across sequencing lanes. Samples were removed if they failed to reach 15 million reads. We calculated normalized read counts for each sample according to the procedure in Cowley et al.[7]. We then calculated pairwise Pearson correlation coefficients between replicate samples from the same cell line to identify and remove poor quality replicates using a threshold of 0.7. All sample read counts were then divided by their representation in the starting plasmid DNA library (pDNA) to compute a fold-change (FC). We computed robust Strictly Standardized Mean Difference (SSMD)[23] statistics for the replicates using FCs between non-targeting control sgRNAs and FCs from sgRNAs targeting the spliceosomal, ribosomal, or proteasomal genes in KEGG genesets[24-26]. We remove replicates with SSMDs that fail to reach −0.5. We also followed standard fingerprinting procedures to remove mismatched cell lines[7]. logFC data were then normalized within each cell line replicate by subtracting the median logFC value and dividing by the median average deviation (MAD) before input to CERES.

Copy number data

Copy number data for all cancer cell lines were obtained from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE)[15] data portal (https://portals.broadinstitute.org/ccle). CN data were derived from Affymetrix SNP6.0 arrays. Segmentation of normalized log2 ratios was performed using the circular binary segmentation (CBS) algorithm. The dataset is available at (https://data.broadinstitute.org/ccle_legacy_data/dna_copy_number/CCLE_copynumber_2013-12-03.seg.txt).

Gene expression and mutation data

Gene expression and mutation data for all cell lines were obtained from CCLE data portal. These datasets are available at https://data.broadinstitute.org/ccle/CCLE_RNAseq_081117.rpkm.gct and https://data.broadinstitute.org/ccle/ccle2maf_081117.txt.

sgRNA genome mapping

sgRNA sequences are mapped to the hg19 reference genome using the bowtie short read aligner, version 1.1.2[27]. Bowtie was run using the options “-a -v 0” in order to find all perfect matches in the genome. Only sgRNAs with fewer than 100 alignments were included and alignments were filtered to include an NGG protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM). Alignments were then mapped to gene coding sequences using the consensus coding sequence (CCDS) database.

Model fitting

To fit CERES to input data, we solve the following optimization problem: Where D̂ is computed according to Equation (1). The constants M, N, and K in the objective function are, respectively, the total number of sgRNAs, cell lines, and genes in the dataset. The right-hand term in the objective function acts as a regularizer on the cell-line specific deviation from the shared gene-knockout effect, where the hyperparameter λg modulates the strength of the regularization. The first constraint on the model parameters ensures that the guide activity scores are between 0 and 1. The second constraint guarantees that the copy-number effect functions are monotonically decreasing in their arguments. As the objective function is not jointly convex in the model parameters, we fit CERES using alternating least squares, first solving for the gene essentiality scores and copy-number effect parameters with the guide activity scores and offsets held constant, then solving for the guide activity scores and offsets as follows: CERES alternating minimization. Due to the presence of constraints, we use numerical optimization techniques to solve for the optimal parameters [g*, f*] and [q*, o*] in steps 1 and 3[28]. Note that we use the bracket notation [g, f] to indicate that the enclosed parameters are inferred simultaneously as variables in a system of constrained linear equations.

Spline functions

The piecewise linear spline functions f in the CERES model equations allow for flexible modeling of the characteristic saturation of the copy-number effect at high numbers of cuts. They are implemented with B-spline regression methods and are each parameterized by 25 slope coefficients plus a single intercept parameter. These are inferred directly in the regression that determines the gene-knockout effects. Each spline has an initial knot point at CN = 0. The additional knot points are determined by running average linkage clustering on the CN data for each cell line.

Hyperparameter optimization and test set evaluation

To improve the generalizability of our model and minimize overfitting of the training data, we regularized the cell line specific gene effects. To find the best value of λg, we evaluated the mean squared error (MSE) obtained on a randomly selected held-out validation set (one-tenth of all observations) for each of 25 values of λg sampled log-uniformly from the interval [0.01, 1]. After the 25 models were evaluated, the value of λg yielding the lowest MSE was used to fit the final model on the full set of observations (Supplementary Fig. 11). The optimized value of λg was 0.562, 0.681, and 0.681 for the Avana, GeCKOv2, and Wang2017 datasets, respectively.

Model complexity

Given a collection of CRISPR screening data, let N be the number of sgRNAs, M be the number of cell lines, and K be the number of targeted genes in the dataset. CERES fits KM cell line specific gene effect parameters and an additional K parameters for the shared gene effects. The model also fits M(S + 1) copy-number effect parameters, where S is the number of CN segments in each piecewise linear spline, and 2N parameters for the guide activity scores and offsets. Ignoring the degrees of freedom lost by regularization and constraints, CERES takes in MN data points and fits MN(1/N + S/N + 2/M + K/N + K/MN) parameters.

Software and implementation

Matrix operations for the optimization procedure were implemented using the open source C++ linear algebra library Eigen, version 3.3, available at http://eigen.tuxfamily.org. These operations were then wrapped into the R statistical software using the ‘RcppEigen’ package, downloaded from http://cran.r-project.org. The optimization routine and final fit for each dataset were run using Google Cloud Platform services.

Precision-recall analysis

Precision-recall curves were generated using the sets of common core essential and nonessential genes defined in Hart et al. [14]. The best threshold for which greater than 95% of hits are essential genes is calculated for an FDR of 5%. The percentage of all essential genes that score as hits at this threshold is calculated as the recall at 5% FDR.

Comparison with linear regression

For each cell line, average guide scores were regressed against gene-level copy number data using a linear model. The fit residuals are taken as the LM-corrected gene dependency scores. Precision-recall analysis was performed as above.

Subsampling analysis

We simulated CERES performance generalization to other dataset sizes by downsampling from the Avana dataset. Specifically, for each number p in the set {1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64} we ran trials (up to rounding), such that each cell line appeared once in each run of size p. For each p and each cell line, we evaluated the harmonic mean of precision and recall (referred to as the F1-measure) at the point of equiprobability between the essential and nonessential gene classes. We then compared this number to the F1-measure obtained by running CERES on the full Avana dataset. For p < 5 we fixed all guide activity scores to a value of 1.

Differential dependency

Differential dependency is calculated as the difference between a single cell line’s dependency score for a given gene and the mean score for that gene across all lines screened, and then z-score normalized to that cell line’s entire set of differential dependencies to reduce the influence of noisy cell lines. For calculating the fraction of differential dependencies that are amplified or unexpressed, only genes with a negative dependency score in at least one cell line are considered.

Recurrent chromosome arm amplifications

We called recurrent chromosome arm amplifications for a lineage across the entire CCLE CN dataset. A chromosome arm was called as amplified if the weighted median of copy number segments on that arm was greater than 2.8. Recurrently amplified chromosome arms for a lineage were then defined using a one-tailed Fisher’s exact test to test for enrichment of amplified arms in that lineage, at an FDR-corrected p-value of 0.05.

Lineage-specific differential dependencies

For every lineage in our dataset with at least five cell lines, we calculate the difference in means in gene dependency between cell lines of that lineage and the rest of the dataset, and assess significance with a two-tailed student’s t-test (df=340), for each gene screened. Differential dependencies are called with a negative effect size at a significance of FDR-corrected p-value < 0.05. For each chromosome arm that was recurrently amplified for that lineage, we calculate the fraction of significant differential dependencies on that chromosome arm before and after CERES correction. Supplementary Table 1. Sample information for the 342 cancer cell lines used in this study. Supplementary Table 2. sgRNA barcode sequences included in the Avana library with genome and coding sequence mappings. Supplementary Table 3. CERES-estimated gene-knockout effects for 342 cancer cell lines screened with the Avana sgRNA library. Supplementary Table 4. CERES-estimated gene-knockout effects for 33 cancer cell lines screened with the GeCKOv2 sgRNA library published in Aguirre et al. (2016). Supplementary Table 5. CERES-estimated gene-knockout effects for 14 AML cell lines screened with the Wang2017 sgRNA library published in Wang et al. (2017). Supplementary Table 6. CERES-estimated guide activity scores for sgRNAs in the Avana dataset. Supplementary Table 7. CERES-estimated guide activity scores for sgRNAs in the GeCKOv2 dataset. Supplementary Table 8. CERES-estimated guide activity scores for sgRNAs in the Wang2017 dataset.
Algorithm 1.1

CERES alternating minimization.

given ε > 0
initialize
1.gene-knockout and copy-number effect coefficients [g, f] := [0,0]
2.guide activity scores and offsets [q, o] := [1,0]
repeat
1.Solve for gene-knockout and copy-number effects. Compute optimal parameters [g*, f*]
2.Update. [g*, f*] := [g*, f*]
3.Solve for guide activity scores and offsets. Compute optimal parameters [q*, o*]
4.Update. [q*, o*] := [q*, o*]
5.Evaluate mean squared error (mse). mset := ||D||2/MN
6.Evaluate decrease in error. Δmse := msetmset−1
7.Stopping criterion. quit if Δmse < ε
Table 1
NameSourceLineageHistologyGenderAgePrimary/MetastasisAchilles culture medium
143B_BONECCLEOsteosarcomaosteosarcomafemale13primaryEMEM; 10% FBS; 0.015 mg/ml 5-bromo-2′-seoxyuridine
42MGBA_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomaNANANARPMI 1640 + EMEM (1:1): 80.0%
5637_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANARPMI-1640: 90.0%
59M_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomaNANANA“DMEM; 10% FBS + 2 mM Glutamine, sodium pyruvate, ITS”
639V_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANADMEM; 10% FBS
647V_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANA“DMEM; 15% FBS, 2mMGlutamax-1”
769P_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomafemale63primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
786O_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomamale58primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
8305C_THYROIDCCLEThyroidcarcinomaNANANARPMI-1640: 85.0%
8MGBA_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomaNANANAEMEM: 80.0%
A2058_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale43metastasisDMEM; 10% FBS
A2780_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemaleNAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
A549_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale58primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
ABC1_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale47primaryEMEM; 10% FBS
AGS_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomafemale54primaryF12K; 10% FBS
ASPC1_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomafemale62metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
AU565_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale43metastasisDMEM; 10% FBS
BC3C_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANAM10
BFTC905_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANADMEM: 90.0%
BFTC909_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomamale64primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
BHY_UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACTCCLEUpper AerodigestivecarcinomamaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
BICR22_UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACTCCLEUpper AerodigestivecarcinomamaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS; 2mM Glutamine; 0.4ug/ml hydrocortisone
BICR6_UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACTCCLEUpper AerodigestivecarcinomamaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
BT549_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale72primaryRPMI; 10% FBS; 10 ug/ml insulin
C2BBE1_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamale72primaryDMEM; 10% FBS; 0.01mg/ml transferrin; 2 mM glutamine
C32_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale53primaryEMEM; 10% FBS; 0.1mM NEAA
CAKI1_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomamale49metastasisMcCoy’s 5A; 10% FBS
CAKI2_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomamale69primaryMcCoy’s 5A; 10% FBS
CAL27_UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACTCCLEUpper Aerodigestivecarcinomamale56primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
CAL29_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANADMEM; 10% FBS
CAL51_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale45metastasisDMEM; 20% FBS
CAL78_BONECCLEChondrosarcomachondrosarcomaNANANA“RPMI-1640, 20% FBS”
CALU6_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomafemale61primaryEMEM; 10% FBS
CAMA1_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale51metastasisEMEM; 10% FBS
CAOV3_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale54primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
CAS1_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamale63primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
CCFSTTG1_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
CCK81_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomaNANANA“EMEM, 10% FBS”
CFPAC1_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamale26primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
CHAGOK1_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale45primaryRPMI; 10% FBS; 2mM glutamine
CHP212_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomaNANANAEMEM:F12 (1:1); 10% FBS
CJM_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomaNANAmetastasisHams F-12; 10% FBS
CL40_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomaNANANA“DMEM/F-12 (1:1), 20% FBS”
COLO678_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
COLO679_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomafemale47metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
COLO792_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale62metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
COLO800_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale14primaryRPMI-1640; 10%FBS
CORL279_LUNGCCLELung (SCL)carcinomamale63metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS; 2mM glutamine
CORL47_LUNGCCLELung (SCL)carcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
COV318_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemaleNAprimaryEMEM; 10% FBS
COV362_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS; 2mM L-glutamine
COV434_OVARYCCLEOvarysex_cord-stromal_tumourfemaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS; 2mM L-glutamine
COV504_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS; 2mM L-glutamine
COV644_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS; 2mM L-glutamine
D283MED_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEMedulloblastomaprimitive_neuroectodermal_tumour-medulloblastomamaleNANA“DMEM; 10% FBS; 2mM L-glutamine, 2mM sodium pyruvate”
D341MED_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEMedulloblastomaprimitive_neuroectodermal_tumour-medulloblastomamaleNANADMEM:F12 (1:1); 15% FBS
DANG_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomaNANANARPMI-1640: 90.0%
DAOY_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEMedulloblastomaprimitive_neuroectodermal_tumour-medulloblastomaNANANAEMEM: 90.0% 10%FBS
DETROIT562_UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACTCCLEUpper AerodigestivecarcinomafemaleNANAEMEM; 10% FBS
DKMG_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomafemale67primaryRPMI; 10% FBS; 2mM glutamine
DLD1_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamaleNAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
DU4475_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale70metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
EFM19_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale50metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
EFO21_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale56metastasisRPMI; 20% FBS; 0.1mM NEAA; 1mM Sodium Pyruvate
EFO27_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale36metastasisRPMI; 20% FBS; 0.1mM NEAA; 1mM Sodium Pyruvate
EKVX_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
EPLC272H_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale57primaryRPMI; 20% FBS
ES2_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale47primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
ESS1_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomafemale76primaryRPMI; 20% FBS
F5_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEM“Dunn Lab, Harvard”MeningiomameningiomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
FADU_UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACTCCLEUpper AerodigestivecarcinomamaleNANAEMEM; 10% FBS
FU97_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomafemaleNANADMEM;10% FBS; Human Insulin: 0.01 mg/mL
G292CLONEA141B1_BONECCLEOsteosarcomaosteosarcomaNANANAMcCoy’s 5A; 10% FBS
G401_SOFT_TISSUECCLESoft Tissuerhabdoid_tumourmale0.25primaryMcCoy’s 5A; 10% FBS
GAMG_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomaNANANA“DMEM, 10%FBS, 2mM Glutamax-1”
GB1_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamale35primaryEMEM; 10% FBS
GCIY_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomafemaleNAprimaryMEM; 15% FBS
GI1_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomaNANANADMEM: 90.0%
GSS_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
H4_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomaNANANADMEM: 90.0%
HARA_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale57primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC1143_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale52primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC1359_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomafemale55primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC1395_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale43primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC1419_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomaNANANARPMI-1640: 90.0%
HCC1428_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale49metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC15_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale47primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC1806_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale60primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC1937_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale24primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC1954_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale61primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC202_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale82primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC56_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomaNANANAEMEM; 10% FBS
HCC827_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomafemale39primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HCC95_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale65primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HEC1A_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomafemale71primaryMcCoy’s 5A; 10% FBS
HEC1B_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomaNANANAEMEM; 10%FBS
HEC251_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomafemaleNAprimaryEMEM; 0.15% FBS
HEC50B_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomafemaleNAprimaryEMEM; 15% FBS
HEC59_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomafemaleNAprimaryEMEM; 0.15% FBS
HEC6_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomaNANANAEMEM; 15% FBS
HEYA8_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemaleNAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HGC27_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomaNANANAMinimum Essential Media (MEM); 10% FBS; NEAA( Non-essential Amino Acids): 5.0 ml; L-glutamine: 2.0 mM
HLF_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomamale69primaryEMEM; 10% FBS
HMC18_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomaNANANARPMI-1640: 10%FBS
HOP62_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
HS294T_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale56metastasisDMEM; 10% FBS
HS578T_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale74primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
HS683_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamale76primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
HS695T_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamaleNANAEMEM: 10% FBS
HS729_SOFT_TISSUECCLESoft TissuerhabdomyosarcomaNANANADMEM; 5% FBS
HS766T_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamale46primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
HS944T_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale51metastasisDMEM; 10% FBS
HSC3_UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACTCCLEUpper Aerodigestivecarcinomamale64primaryEMEM; 10% FBS
HT1080_SOFT_TISSUECCLESoft Tissuefibrosarcomamale35metastasisEMEM; 10% FBS
HT115_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomaNANANADMEM; 15% FBS; 2mM Glutamax-1
HT1197_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary Tractcarcinomamale44primaryEMEM; 10% FBS
HT1376_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANAEMEM; 10% FBS
HT144_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamaleNANAMcCoy’s 5A; 10% FBS
HT55_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomaNANAprimaryEMEM; 20% FBS; 2mM L-glutamine; 0.1mM NEAA
HUH1_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomamale35primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
HUH6_LIVERCCLELiverotherNANANADMEM; 10% FBS
HUH7_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomamale57primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
HUPT3_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamale66primaryMEM; 10% FBS
IGR1_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale42metastasisDMEM; 10% FBS
IGR39_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale26primaryDMEM; 15% FBS
IMR32_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomamaleNANAEMEM; 10% FBS
IPC298_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomafemale64primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
JHH1_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomamale50primaryWilliam’s E Medium; 10% FBS
JHH4_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomaNANANAEMEM; 10% FBS
JHH5_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomamale50primaryWilliam’s E Medium: 90.0%
JHH7_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomaNANANAWilliam’s E medium with 10% FCS
JHOC5_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemaleNAprimaryDMEM:F12 (1:1); 10% FBS; 0.1mM NEAA
JHOM1_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemaleNAprimaryDMEM:F12 (1:1); 10% FBS; 0.1mM NEAA
JHOS2_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale45primaryDMEM/F12 (1:1);10 % FBS;
JHOS4_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale44primaryDMEM:F12 (1:1); 10% FBS
JIMT1_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
JMSU1_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS; 2mM Glutamax-1
K029AX_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
KALS1_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomafemaleNAprimaryRPMI; 5% FBS
KARPAS299_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUE“Weinstock Lab, DFCI”T-cell Lymphoma (ALCL)lymphoid_neoplasmmaleNANA“RPMI, 20% FBS, 2 mM L-glutamine”
KELLY_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
KIJK_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUE“Weinstock Lab, DFCI”T-cell Lymphoma (ALCL)lymphoid_neoplasmmaleNANARPMI; 20% FBS
KLE_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomaNANANA“DMEM/F-12 (1:1), 10%FBS”
KM12_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
KMBC2_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANADMEM; 10% FBS
KMRC1_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomamaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS
KMRC20_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomaNANAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS
KNS42_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomaNANANAEMEM; 5% FBS
KNS60_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamale55primaryDMEM; 0.05% FBS
KNS62_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale49primaryEMEM; 20% FBS
KNS81_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamale65primaryDMEM; 5% FBS
KP2_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomafemale65primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
KP3_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
KP4_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamale50metastasisDMEM:F12 (1:1); 10% FBS
KPL1_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale50metastasisDMEM; 10% FBS
KPNYN_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
KS1_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomaNANANAMEM; 10% FBS; 2mMGlutamax-1
KU1919_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10%heat inactive FBS
KURAMOCHI_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemaleNAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
KYSE180_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophaguscarcinomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
KYSE270_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophaguscarcinomaNANANARPMI 1640:F12 (1:1): 90.0%
KYSE30_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophaguscarcinomamale64primaryRPMI:F12 (1:1); 20% FBS
KYSE410_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophaguscarcinomaNANANARPMI-1640: 90.0%
KYSE450_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophaguscarcinomamale59primaryRPMI:HamsF-12(1:1) (RPMI-1640 (Hyclone Cat.# SH30027.02):Hams F-12 (Hyclone Cat.# SH30026.01)); 10% FBS
KYSE70_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophaguscarcinomamale77primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
LCLC103H_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale61metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
LI7_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
LK2_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS
LN18_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamale65primaryDMEM; 5% FBS
LN235_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEM“Lynda Chin, MD Anderson”GliomagliomamaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
LN382_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEM“Lynda Chin, MD Anderson”GliomagliomamaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
LN443_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEM“Mikael Rinne, DFCI”GliomagliomamaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
LNZ308_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEM“Lynda Chin, MD Anderson”GliomagliomafemaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
LOVO_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamale56metastasisF12K; 10% FBS
LS1034_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
LS180_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomafemaleNANAEMEM; 10% FBS
LS513_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamale63primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
LUDLU1_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale72primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
LXF289_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale63primaryHams F-12; 10% FBS
M059K_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamale33primaryDMEM/F12 (1:1); 10 % FBS
MALME3M_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale43metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
MCAS_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomaNANANAEMEM:15%FBS
MDAMB157_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale44metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
MDAMB231_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale51metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
MDAMB415_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale38metastasisL-15; 15% FBS; 2mM glutamine; 10mcg/mL Insulin; 10mcg/mL Glutathione
MDAMB435S_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomafemaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
MDAMB436_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale43metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS; 16ug/ml glutathione
MDAMB453_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale48metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
MDAMB468_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale51metastasisDMEM; 10% FBS
MDST8_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomaNANANADMEM; 10% FBS; 2mM Glutamine
MELHO_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomafemaleNAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
MELJUSO_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomafemaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
MFE319_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomaNANANA40% RPMI 1640 + 40% MEM (with Earle’s salts) + 20% h.i. FBS
MHHNB11_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
MIAPACA2_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamale65primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
MKN45_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomafemale62metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
MOLM13_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUECCLEAMLhaematopoietic_neoplasmmale20primaryRPMI; 20% FBS
MORCPR_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
MV411_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUECCLEAMLhaematopoietic_neoplasmmale10primaryIMDM; 10% FBS
NB1_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
NB4_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUECCLEAMLhaematopoietic_neoplasmfemale23primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH1299_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale43metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH1437_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale6metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH1581_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale44primaryDMEM:F12 (1:1); 10% FBS
NCIH1650_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale27metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH1693_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomafemale55metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH1703_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale54primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH1792_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale50metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH1944_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomafemale62metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH2023_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale26metastasis“DMEM:HAM’s F12 (1:1); 5% FBS; .005 mg/ml insulin, .01 mg/ml transferrin, 30nM sodium selenite, 10 nM hydrocortisone, 10 nM beta estradiol, 10 mM HEPES, 2 mM L-glutamine”
NCIH2030_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamaleNAmetastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH2087_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale69metastasisRPMI; 5% FBS
NCIH2110_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomaNANAmetastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH2122_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomafemale46metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH2126_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale65metastasis“DMEM:HAM’s F12 (1:1); 5% FBS; .005 mg/ml insulin, .01 mg/ml transferrin, 30nM sodium selenite, 10 nM hydrocortisone, 10 nM beta estradiol, 10 mM HEPES, 2 mM L-glutamine”
NCIH2170_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamaleNAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH2172_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomafemaleNAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH2291_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamaleNAmetastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH23_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale51primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH322_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale52primaryRPMI; 10% FBS; 2mM glutamine
NCIH441_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamaleNAmetastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH460_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamaleNAmetastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH520_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamaleNAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH716_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamale33metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH747_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamale69metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIH838_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale59metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NCIN87_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomamaleNAmetastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
NOMO1_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUECCLEAMLhaematopoietic_neoplasmfemale31primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
NUGC3_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomamale72primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
OAW28_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomaNANANADMEM; 10% FBS
OE21_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophaguscarcinomaNANANARPMI-1640: 90.0%
OE33_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophagusotherfemale73primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
ONS76_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEMedulloblastomaprimitive_neuroectodermal_tumour-medulloblastomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
OSRC2_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
OUMS23_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomaNANANADMEM; 10% FBS
OV7_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale78primaryDMEM:F12 (1:1); 5% FBS; 2mM L-glutamine; 0.5ug/ml hydrocortisone; 10ug/ml insulin
OV90_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale64metastasisDMEM; 10% FBS(Tony) [1:1 mixture of MCDB 105 medium with 1.5 g/L sodium bicarbonate added and Medium 199; 10% FBS]
OVCAR8_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale64primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
OVISE_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale40primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
OVK18_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomaNANANAMEM10
OVMANA_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale51primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
OVTOKO_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale78metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
P31FUJ_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUE“Ebert Lab, DFCI”AMLhaematopoietic_neoplasmmaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
PANC0203_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomafemaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS; 1mM sodium pyruvate
PANC0403_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamaleNANARPMI; 15% FBS; 20ug/ml human insulin
PANC1005_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamaleNAprimaryRPMI; 15% FBS; 2mM glutamine; 1.5 g/L Sodium bicarbonate; 4.5g/L glucose; 10mM HEPES; 1mM Sodium Pyruvate; 10 units/mL Insulin
PATU8988S_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomaNANANA“DMEM:;10%FBS, 2mMGlutamax”
PC14_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
PECAPJ34CLONEC12_UPPER_AERODIGESTIVE_TRACTCCLEUpper Aerodigestivecarcinomamale60primaryIMDM; 10% FBS; 2mM Glutamine
PF382_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUE“Steigmaier Lab, DFCI”T-cell ALLlymphoid_neoplasmNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
PK1_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomaNANANARPMI-1640:10%FBS
PK45H_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
PK59_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
PLCPRF5_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomamale24primaryDMEM; 10% FBS
PSN1_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS; 2mM glutamine
RCC10RGB_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomamaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS
RD_SOFT_TISSUECCLESoft Tissuerhabdomyosarcomafemale7primary“DMEM:HAM’s F12 (1:1); 5% FBS; .005 mg/ml insulin, .01 mg/ml transferrin, 30nM sodium selenite, 10 nM hydrocortisone, 10 nM beta estradiol, 10 mM HEPES, 2 mM L-glutamine”
RERFLCAD1_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale70primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
RERFLCAI_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamaleNAprimaryEMEM; 10% FBS
RH30_SOFT_TISSUECCLESoft Tissuerhabdomyosarcomamale17metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
RKN_SOFT_TISSUECCLEOvaryleiomyosarcomafemale45primaryHams F-12; 10% FBS
RKO_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomaNANAprimaryMEM; 10% FBS
RMUGS_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale62primaryHams F-12; 10% FBS
RPMI7951_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomafemale18metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
RT112_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomafemaleNAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
RT11284_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANAEMEM; 10% FBS;2mMGlutamax; 1%NEAA
RT4_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANAM10
RVH421_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
SCABER_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANA“E10+ L-glutamine: 2.0 mM, NEAA( Non-essential Amino Acids): 0.1 mM, Sodium Pyruvate: 0.1 mM”
SF295_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomafemale67primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
SF767_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEM“Lynda Chin, MD Anderson”GliomagliomafemaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
SH10TC_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
SIMA_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
SJSA1_BONECCLEOsteosarcomaosteosarcomamale19primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
SKBR3_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemale43metastasisMcCoy’s 5A; 10% FBS
SKHEP1_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomamale52metastasisEMEM; 10% FBS
SKMEL24_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale67metastasisEMEM; 10% FBS
SKMEL30_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomamale67metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
SKMES1_LUNGCCLELung (NSCLC)carcinomamale65metastasisDMEM; 10% FBS
SKNAS_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomafemaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS; NEAA
SKNBE2_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomamaleNANAEMEM:F12 (1:1); 10% FBS
SKNDZ_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomafemaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS; NEAA
SKNFI_AUTONOMIC_GANGLIACCLENeuroblastomaneuroblastomamaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS; NEAA
SKNMC_BONECCLEEwing SarcomaEwings_sarcoma-peripheral_primitive_neuroectodermal_tumourfemaleNANAEMEM; 10% FBS
SKOV3_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale64metastasisMcCoy’s 5A; 10% FBS
SLR20_KIDNEY“Kaelin Lab, DFCI”KidneycarcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
SLR23_KIDNEY“Kaelin Lab, DFCI”KidneycarcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI;10% FBS w/kanamycin
SLR26_KIDNEY“Kaelin Lab, DFCI”KidneycarcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
SNGM_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomaNANANAHam F-12: 80.0%
SNU1_STOMACHCCLEStomachcarcinomaNANANARPMI-1640: 90.0%
SNU201_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamale58primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
SNU213_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamaleNANA“RPMI; 10% FBS, 2mM L-glutamine”
SNU349_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomamale68primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
SNU398_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
SNU410_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
SNU449_LIVERCCLELivercarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
SNU503_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
SNU685_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomafemaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
SNU8_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale55primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
SNU840_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale45primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
SUIT2_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
SUPM2_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUE“Weinstock Lab, DFCI”T-cell Lymphoma (ALCL)lymphoid_neoplasmfemaleNANARPMI; 20% FBS
SUPT1_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUE“Steigmaier Lab, DFCI”T-cell ALLlymphoid_neoplasmmale8metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
SW1463_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomafemaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
SW403_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomafemale51primaryLeibovitz’s L-15; 10%FBS
SW48_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomafemale82primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
SW620_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamale51metastasisL-15; 10% FBS
SW837_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamale53primaryRPMI; 10% FBS
T24_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANAMcCoy 5A: 90.0%
T3M4_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomaNANANAHam F-10: 90.0%;10%FBS
T84_LARGE_INTESTINECCLEColorectalcarcinomamaleNANADMEM:F12(1:1); 5% FBS; 2mM Glutamine
T98G_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamale61primaryEMEM; 10% FBS
TCCPAN2_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomafemaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
TCCSUP_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary Tractcarcinomafemale67primaryEMEM; 10% FBS; 1mM NEAA; 1mM Sodium Pyruvate
TE1_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophaguscarcinomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
TE5_OESOPHAGUSCCLEEsophaguscarcinomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
TEN_ENDOMETRIUMCCLEEndometriumcarcinomaNANANAMEM;10%FBS
TF1_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUECCLEAMLhaematopoietic_neoplasmmaleNANARPMI-1640: 10%FBS; 2ng/ml GM-CSF
THP1_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUECCLEAMLhaematopoietic_neoplasmmale1primaryRPMI; 10% FBS; 50uM B-mercaptoethanol
TOV21G_OVARYCCLEOvarycarcinomafemale62primaryMCDB 105:Medium 199 (1:1); 15% FBS
TUHR10TKB_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
TUHR4TKB_KIDNEYCCLEKidneycarcinomaNANAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS
U118MG_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS
U178_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
U251MG_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomamaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS
U2OS_BONECCLEOsteosarcomaosteosarcomafemale15primaryMcCoy’s 5A; 10% FBS
U343_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEM“Lynda Chin, MD Anderson”GliomagliomaNANANADMEM; 10% FBS
U87MG_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomafemale44primaryEMEM; 10% FBS
U937_HAEMATOPOIETIC_AND_LYMPHOID_TISSUE“Ebert Lab, DFCI”Lymphoma (DLBCL)lymphoid_neoplasmmale37metastasisRPMI; 10% FBS
UACC257_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignt_melanomaNANAprimaryRPMI; 10% FBS
UACC62_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
UMUC3_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANAEMEM; 10% FBS
UOK101_KIDNEY“Kaelin Lab, DFCI”KidneycarcinomafemaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
VMCUB1_URINARY_TRACTCCLEUrinary TractcarcinomaNANANADMEM; 10%FBS
WM115_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomafemaleNANAEMEM; 10% FBS
WM1799_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
WM2664_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomafemaleNANADMEM; 10% FBS
WM793_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
WM983B_SKINCCLEMelanomamalignant_melanomaNANANARPMI; 10% FBS
YAPC_PANCREASCCLEPancreascarcinomamaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
YKG1_CENTRAL_NERVOUS_SYSTEMCCLEGliomagliomafemaleNAprimaryDMEM; 10% FBS
ZR751_BREASTCCLEBreastcarcinomafemaleNANARPMI; 10% FBS
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1.  KEGG: kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes.

Authors:  M Kanehisa; S Goto
Journal:  Nucleic Acids Res       Date:  2000-01-01       Impact factor: 16.971

2.  Essential gene profiles in breast, pancreatic, and ovarian cancer cells.

Authors:  Richard Marcotte; Kevin R Brown; Fernando Suarez; Azin Sayad; Konstantina Karamboulas; Paul M Krzyzanowski; Fabrice Sircoulomb; Mauricio Medrano; Yaroslav Fedyshyn; Judice L Y Koh; Dewald van Dyk; Bodhana Fedyshyn; Marianna Luhova; Glauber C Brito; Franco J Vizeacoumar; Frederick S Vizeacoumar; Alessandro Datti; Dahlia Kasimer; Alla Buzina; Patricia Mero; Christine Misquitta; Josee Normand; Maliha Haider; Troy Ketela; Jeffrey L Wrana; Robert Rottapel; Benjamin G Neel; Jason Moffat
Journal:  Cancer Discov       Date:  2011-12-29       Impact factor: 39.397

Review 3.  Cornerstones of CRISPR-Cas in drug discovery and therapy.

Authors:  Christof Fellmann; Benjamin G Gowen; Pei-Chun Lin; Jennifer A Doudna; Jacob E Corn
Journal:  Nat Rev Drug Discov       Date:  2016-12-23       Impact factor: 84.694

4.  Systematic investigation of genetic vulnerabilities across cancer cell lines reveals lineage-specific dependencies in ovarian cancer.

Authors:  Hiu Wing Cheung; Glenn S Cowley; Barbara A Weir; Jesse S Boehm; Scott Rusin; Justine A Scott; Alexandra East; Levi D Ali; Patrick H Lizotte; Terence C Wong; Guozhi Jiang; Jessica Hsiao; Craig H Mermel; Gad Getz; Jordi Barretina; Shuba Gopal; Pablo Tamayo; Joshua Gould; Aviad Tsherniak; Nicolas Stransky; Biao Luo; Yin Ren; Ronny Drapkin; Sangeeta N Bhatia; Jill P Mesirov; Levi A Garraway; Matthew Meyerson; Eric S Lander; David E Root; William C Hahn
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2011-07-11       Impact factor: 11.205

5.  Gene Essentiality Profiling Reveals Gene Networks and Synthetic Lethal Interactions with Oncogenic Ras.

Authors:  Tim Wang; Haiyan Yu; Nicholas W Hughes; Bingxu Liu; Arek Kendirli; Klara Klein; Walter W Chen; Eric S Lander; David M Sabatini
Journal:  Cell       Date:  2017-02-02       Impact factor: 41.582

6.  Dual roles of the transcription factor grainyhead-like 2 (GRHL2) in breast cancer.

Authors:  Stefan Werner; Sabrina Frey; Sabine Riethdorf; Christian Schulze; Malik Alawi; Lea Kling; Vida Vafaizadeh; Guido Sauter; Luigi Terracciano; Udo Schumacher; Klaus Pantel; Volker Assmann
Journal:  J Biol Chem       Date:  2013-06-29       Impact factor: 5.157

7.  Sequence determinants of improved CRISPR sgRNA design.

Authors:  Han Xu; Tengfei Xiao; Chen-Hao Chen; Wei Li; Clifford A Meyer; Qiu Wu; Di Wu; Le Cong; Feng Zhang; Jun S Liu; Myles Brown; X Shirley Liu
Journal:  Genome Res       Date:  2015-06-10       Impact factor: 9.043

8.  MAGeCK enables robust identification of essential genes from genome-scale CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screens.

Authors:  Wei Li; Han Xu; Tengfei Xiao; Le Cong; Michael I Love; Feng Zhang; Rafael A Irizarry; Jun S Liu; Myles Brown; X Shirley Liu
Journal:  Genome Biol       Date:  2014       Impact factor: 13.583

9.  Measuring error rates in genomic perturbation screens: gold standards for human functional genomics.

Authors:  Traver Hart; Kevin R Brown; Fabrice Sircoulomb; Robert Rottapel; Jason Moffat
Journal:  Mol Syst Biol       Date:  2014-07-01       Impact factor: 11.429

10.  Optimized sgRNA design to maximize activity and minimize off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9.

Authors:  John G Doench; Nicolo Fusi; Meagan Sullender; Mudra Hegde; Emma W Vaimberg; Jennifer Listgarten; Katherine F Donovan; Ian Smith; Zuzana Tothova; Craig Wilen; Robert Orchard; Herbert W Virgin; David E Root
Journal:  Nat Biotechnol       Date:  2016-01-18       Impact factor: 54.908

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1.  Tissue- and development-stage-specific mRNA and heterogeneous CNV signatures of human ribosomal proteins in normal and cancer samples.

Authors:  Anshuman Panda; Anupama Yadav; Huwate Yeerna; Amartya Singh; Michael Biehl; Markus Lux; Alexander Schulz; Tyler Klecha; Sebastian Doniach; Hossein Khiabanian; Shridar Ganesan; Pablo Tamayo; Gyan Bhanot
Journal:  Nucleic Acids Res       Date:  2020-07-27       Impact factor: 16.971

2.  USP1 Is Required for Replication Fork Protection in BRCA1-Deficient Tumors.

Authors:  Kah Suan Lim; Heng Li; Emma A Roberts; Emily F Gaudiano; Connor Clairmont; Larissa Alina Sambel; Karthikeyan Ponnienselvan; Jessica C Liu; Chunyu Yang; David Kozono; Kalindi Parmar; Timur Yusufzai; Ning Zheng; Alan D D'Andrea
Journal:  Mol Cell       Date:  2018-12-20       Impact factor: 17.970

Review 3.  Genomic evolution of cancer models: perils and opportunities.

Authors:  Uri Ben-David; Rameen Beroukhim; Todd R Golub
Journal:  Nat Rev Cancer       Date:  2019-02       Impact factor: 60.716

4.  Lethal clues to cancer-cell vulnerability.

Authors:  Felix Y Feng; Luke A Gilbert
Journal:  Nature       Date:  2019-04       Impact factor: 49.962

5.  Identification of genetic variants in m6A modification genes associated with pancreatic cancer risk in the Chinese population.

Authors:  Pingting Ying; Yao Li; Nan Yang; Xiaoyang Wang; Haoxue Wang; Heng He; Bin Li; Xiating Peng; Danyi Zou; Ying Zhu; Rong Zhong; Xiaoping Miao; Jianbo Tian; Jiang Chang
Journal:  Arch Toxicol       Date:  2021-01-21       Impact factor: 5.153

Review 6.  Mechanism and Regulation of Centriole and Cilium Biogenesis.

Authors:  David K Breslow; Andrew J Holland
Journal:  Annu Rev Biochem       Date:  2019-01-11       Impact factor: 23.643

7.  Integrative analysis of large-scale loss-of-function screens identifies robust cancer-associated genetic interactions.

Authors:  Christopher J Lord; Niall Quinn; Colm J Ryan
Journal:  Elife       Date:  2020-05-28       Impact factor: 8.140

8.  Phenotypic Screening Combined with Machine Learning for Efficient Identification of Breast Cancer-Selective Therapeutic Targets.

Authors:  Prson Gautam; Alok Jaiswal; Tero Aittokallio; Hassan Al-Ali; Krister Wennerberg
Journal:  Cell Chem Biol       Date:  2019-05-02       Impact factor: 8.116

9.  Comprehensive characterization of the rRNA metabolism-related genes in human cancer.

Authors:  Kaisa Cui; Cheng Liu; Xu Li; Qiang Zhang; Youjun Li
Journal:  Oncogene       Date:  2019-09-23       Impact factor: 9.867

Review 10.  Targeting the SAGA and ATAC Transcriptional Coactivator Complexes in MYC-Driven Cancers.

Authors:  Lisa Maria Mustachio; Jason Roszik; Aimee Farria; Sharon Y R Dent
Journal:  Cancer Res       Date:  2020-02-24       Impact factor: 12.701

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