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CGPA: A Multicontext Cancer Gene Prognosis Atlas
Biwei Cao1, Xiaoqing Yu1, Guillermo Gonzalez1
1Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, Florida.
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Cancer transcriptomic data are widely leveraged to evaluate the prognostic relevance of targeted genes. However, most basic and translational studies continue to rely on univariable survival analysis, which often fails to capture the full prognostic potential of genes or account for their biological context. Recognizing the complexity of revealing multifaceted prognostic effects, especially when incorporating covariates and variable thresholds, we present the Cancer Gene Prognosis Atlas (CGPA), an interactive tool specifically designed for basic and molecular cancer researchers. CGPA provides an intuitive, user-friendly interface that enables in-depth, customizable prognostic analysis across cancer types. Beyond single-gene analyses, it supports data-driven exploration of gene pairs and gene-hallmark relationships, providing insights into key mechanisms such as synthetic lethality and immunosuppression. CGPA further extends its capabilities to assess multigene panels using both public and user-provided data and includes a dedicated portal for cancer immunotherapy datasets. Collectively, CGPA's comprehensive yet user-friendly toolkit enables researchers to interrogate the prognostic landscape of genes with precision, tailor analyses to specific biological hypotheses, and accelerate biomarker discovery and validation through the integration of both mechanisticically-informed and data-driven approaches.
Implications:
CGPA is a streamlined, interactive platform for multicontext gene-centric prognostic analysis, simplifying biomarker discovery and validation for molecular and basic cancer scientists and bridging a critical gap in translational cancer research.
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