High-Performance CPU-GPU Compute Cluster for Research on Computational Game Theory and Biological Steering

Abstract

The design of efficient combination therapies is a difficult key challenge in the treatment of complex diseases such as cancers. The large heterogeneity of cancers and the large number of available drugs renders exhaustive in vivo or even in vitro investigation of possible treatments impractical. In recent years, sophisticated mechanistic, ordinary differential equation-based pathways models that can predict treatment responses at a molecular level have been developed. However, surprisingly little effort has been put into leveraging these models to find novel therapies. In this paper we use for the first time, to our knowledge, a large-scale state-of-the-art pan-cancer signaling pathway model to identify potentially novel combination therapies to treat individual cancer cell lines from various tissues (e.g., minimizing proliferation while keeping dosage low to avoid adverse side effects) and populations of cancer cell lines.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 17, 2021
Accession Number
AD1208840

Entities

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Birds
  • Cell Line
  • Cells
  • Combination Therapy
  • Computations
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Equations
  • Extensive-Form Games
  • Game Theory
  • Linear Programming
  • Machine Learning
  • Optimization
  • Students
  • Zero-Sum Games

Fields of Study

  • Biology

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Oncology