Application: Interactive analysis and visualization of drug screening experiments.
Unmet need: Current drug screening analysis is target-centric.
IP Status: Commercial licenses to C-SPADE source code are available (free academic use).
Project phase: Ready for use.
C-SPADE web-application is an interactive and innovative visualization tool for drug screening data. It retrieves compounds structural information and clusters them based on their structural similarities, which is visualized as a dendrogram of compounds augmented with their bioactivity values and other compound annotations. The tool offers unique representations of chemical similarity among compounds subjected for screening studies. C-SPADE also allows a real-time comparison of investigational compounds against a screening panel for drug development or repurposing applications. C-SPADE can be used with various types of drug screening assays and it is tailored to be accessible to researchers with little to no informatic skills.
Tero Aittokallio & Balaguru Ravikumar
University of Helsinki, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland