Three million images and morphological profiles of cells treated with matched chemical and genetic perturbations

Autor: Srinivas Niranj Chandrasekaran, Beth A. Cimini, Amy Goodale, Lisa Miller, Maria Kost-Alimova, Nasim Jamali, John G. Doench, Briana Fritchman, Adam Skepner, Michelle Melanson, John Arevalo, Marzieh Haghighi, Juan Caicedo, Daniel Kuhn, Desiree Hernandez, Jim Berstler, Hamdah Shafqat-Abbasi, David Root, Susanne E. Swalley, Sakshi Garg, Shantanu Singh, Anne E. Carpenter
Rok vydání: 2022
DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.05.475090
Popis: Identifying genetic and chemical perturbations with similar impacts on cell morphology can reveal compounds’ mechanisms of action or novel regulators of genetic pathways. Research on methods for identifying such similarities has lagged due to a lack of carefully designed and well-annotated image sets of cells treated with chemical and genetic perturbations. Here, we create such a Resource dataset, CPJUMP1, where each perturbed gene is a known target of at least two chemical compounds in the dataset. We systematically explore the directionality of correlations among perturbations that target the same gene, and we find that identifying matches between chemical perturbations and genetic perturbations is a challenging task. Our dataset and baseline analyses provide a benchmark for evaluating methods that measure perturbation similarities and impact, and more generally, learn effective representations of cellular state from microscopy images. Such advancements would accelerate the applications of image-based profiling, such as functional genomics and drug discovery.
Databáze: OpenAIRE