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Michaela Spitzer

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Applications of machine learning in drug discovery and development

…, B Li, A Madabhushi, P Shah, M Spitzer… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Drug discovery and development pipelines are long, complex and depend on numerous
factors. Machine learning (ML) approaches provide a set of tools that can improve discovery …

BoxPlotR: a web tool for generation of box plots

M Spitzer, J Wildenhain, J Rappsilber, M Tyers - Nature methods, 2014 - nature.com
In biomedical research, it is often necessary to compare multiple data sets with different
distributions. The bar plot, or histogram, is typically used to compare data sets on the basis of …

Open Targets Platform: supporting systematic drug–target identification and prioritisation

…, L Fumis, D Carvalho-Silva, M Spitzer… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The Open Targets Platform ( https://www.targetvalidation.org/ ) provides users with a queryable
knowledgebase and user interface to aid systematic target identification and prioritisation …

Open Targets Platform: new developments and updates two years on

…, E McAuley, A Miranda, G Peat, M Spitzer… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The Open Targets Platform integrates evidence from genetics, genomics, transcriptomics,
drugs, animal models and scientific literature to score and rank target-disease associations for …

Combinatorial strategies for combating invasive fungal infections

M Spitzer, N Robbins, GD Wright - Virulence, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Invasive fungal infections are an important cause of human mortality and morbidity, particularly
for immunocompromised populations. However, there remains a paucity of antifungal …

Distinct XPPX sequence motifs induce ribosome stalling, which is rescued by the translation elongation factor EF-P

…, GC Atkinson, K Virumäe, M Spitzer… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Ribosomes are the protein synthesizing factories of the cell, polymerizing polypeptide chains
from their constituent amino acids. However, distinct combinations of amino acids, such as …

Cross‐species discovery of syncretic drug combinations that potentiate the antifungal fluconazole

M Spitzer, E Griffiths, KM Blakely… - Molecular systems …, 2011 - embopress.org
Resistance to widely used fungistatic drugs, particularly to the ergosterol biosynthesis inhibitor
fluconazole, threatens millions of immunocompromised patients susceptible to invasive …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of synergism from chemical-genetic interactions by machine learning

J Wildenhain, M Spitzer, S Dolma, N Jarvik, R White… - Cell Systems, 2015 - cell.com
The structure of genetic interaction networks predicts that, analogous to synthetic lethal
interactions between non-essential genes, combinations of compounds with latent activities may …

[PDF][PDF] An antifungal combination matrix identifies a rich pool of adjuvant molecules that enhance drug activity against diverse fungal pathogens

N Robbins, M Spitzer, T Yu, RP Cerone, AK Averette… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
There is an urgent need to identify new treatments for fungal infections. By combining sub-lethal
concentrations of the known antifungals fluconazole, caspofungin, amphotericin B, …

Zebrafish MITF-low melanoma subtype models reveal transcriptional subclusters and MITF-independent residual disease

…, T Lefevre, A Brombin, A Ewing, A Capper, M Spitzer… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
This study provides a useful model for MITF-low melanomas and MITF-independent cell
populations that can be used to study the mechanisms that drive these tumors as well as identify …