A highly annotated drug combination resource for catalyzing precision combinatorial therapy

Abstract Combinations of cancer drugs have the potential to overcome resistance, improve the response rate of existing drugs and reduce dose-limiting toxicity associated with single agents. Existing drug combination databases only provide response data, such as synergy scores between two drugs, with...

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Main Authors: Tianyi You, Lili Wang, Jianhua Wang, Dongqing Xu, Xinran Xu, Nan Li, Mulin Jun Li, Haitao Wang, Xiaobao Dong
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05630-4
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Nan Li
Mulin Jun Li
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Xiaobao Dong
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description Abstract Combinations of cancer drugs have the potential to overcome resistance, improve the response rate of existing drugs and reduce dose-limiting toxicity associated with single agents. Existing drug combination databases only provide response data, such as synergy scores between two drugs, without important contextual information to assist oncologists in matching their patients with these combinations in an evidence-based way. To address this gap, we developed a cancer drug combination database (named as OncoDrug+) by manually collecting and integrating drug combinations and corresponding evidences from FDA databases, clinical guidelines, clinical trials, clinical case reports, patient-derived tumor xenograft models, cell line models and bioinformatics predictions. OncoDrug+ includes 7895 data entries, covering 77 cancer types, including unique 2201 drug combination therapies, involving 1200 biomarkers, 763 published reports and seven types of evidence. Unlike many previous databases only include treatment regime and drug response data, OncoDrug+ provides detailed genetic evidences, pharmacological target information and evidence scores supporting each combination strategy, making evidence-based experimental or clinical applications of cancer drug combinations be possible.
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spelling doaj-art-3e23a3c8e51f4ed4967f44e0cf510e0b2025-08-20T03:45:41ZengNature PortfolioScientific Data2052-44632025-07-0112111010.1038/s41597-025-05630-4A highly annotated drug combination resource for catalyzing precision combinatorial therapyTianyi You0Lili Wang1Jianhua Wang2Dongqing Xu3Xinran Xu4Nan Li5Mulin Jun Li6Haitao Wang7Xiaobao Dong8Department of Bioinformatics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Inflammation Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical UniversityDepartment of Oncology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical UniversityDepartment of Bioinformatics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Inflammation Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical UniversityDepartment of Bioinformatics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Inflammation Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical UniversityDepartment of Bioinformatics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Inflammation Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical UniversityDepartment of Oncology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical UniversityDepartment of Bioinformatics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Inflammation Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical UniversityDepartment of Oncology, Tianjin Institute of Urology, The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical UniversityDepartment of Bioinformatics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Inflammation Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Tianjin Medical UniversityAbstract Combinations of cancer drugs have the potential to overcome resistance, improve the response rate of existing drugs and reduce dose-limiting toxicity associated with single agents. Existing drug combination databases only provide response data, such as synergy scores between two drugs, without important contextual information to assist oncologists in matching their patients with these combinations in an evidence-based way. To address this gap, we developed a cancer drug combination database (named as OncoDrug+) by manually collecting and integrating drug combinations and corresponding evidences from FDA databases, clinical guidelines, clinical trials, clinical case reports, patient-derived tumor xenograft models, cell line models and bioinformatics predictions. OncoDrug+ includes 7895 data entries, covering 77 cancer types, including unique 2201 drug combination therapies, involving 1200 biomarkers, 763 published reports and seven types of evidence. Unlike many previous databases only include treatment regime and drug response data, OncoDrug+ provides detailed genetic evidences, pharmacological target information and evidence scores supporting each combination strategy, making evidence-based experimental or clinical applications of cancer drug combinations be possible.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05630-4
spellingShingle Tianyi You
Lili Wang
Jianhua Wang
Dongqing Xu
Xinran Xu
Nan Li
Mulin Jun Li
Haitao Wang
Xiaobao Dong
A highly annotated drug combination resource for catalyzing precision combinatorial therapy
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title A highly annotated drug combination resource for catalyzing precision combinatorial therapy
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url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05630-4
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