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NCI Standard Anticancer Agents

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Dataset of the NCI standard anticancer agents

Details

The list of compounds designated standard agents was originally determined by M.R. Boyd. He chose 171 drugs with cancer treatment New Drug Applications or Investigational New Drug Applications as well as compounds that had reached a particular high stage of interest at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in recent years for the list.
A Dataset of 171 unique molecules representing the standard agents.
Contains chemical structures, computed 3D geometries, and external identifiers.

Examples

Basic Examples

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ncisaa = ResourceData[\!\(\* TagBox["\"\<NCI Standard Anticancer Agents\>\"", #& , BoxID -> "ResourceTag-NCI Standard Anticancer Agents-Input", AutoDelete->True]\)];

Get information on methotrexate:

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sample = First[ Normal[Values[ncisaa[Select[#Name === "methotrexate" &], All]]]]
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Visualize the molecule:

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MoleculePlot3D[sample["Molecule"]]
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Visualizations

For an idea of the size of the molecules in the set, make a histogram of their atom counts:

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Histogram[ MoleculeProperty["AtomCount"] /@ DeleteMissing[Normal[ncisaa[Values, "Molecule"]]]]
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Find all nitrosoureas in the data:

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nourPattern = MoleculePattern[{"C", "O", "N", "N", "N", "O"}, {Bond[{1, 2}, "Double"], Bond[{1, 3}, "Single"], Bond[{1, 4}, "Single"], Bond[{3, 5}, "Single"], Bond[{5, 6}, "Double"]}];
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nitrosoureas = ncisaa[Select[ If[MoleculeQ[#Molecule], MoleculeContainsQ[#Molecule, nourPattern], False] &], All]
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Make 3D plots of all of them, highlighting the nitrosourea moiety:

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MoleculePlot3D[#["Molecule"], nourPattern, PlotLabel -> #["Name"]] & /@ Normal[nitrosoureas[Values, {"Name", "Molecule"}]]
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Wolfram Research, "NCI Standard Anticancer Agents" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2021)  

License Information

"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/", The data is under the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License".

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Title: Status of the NCI preclinical antitumor drug discovery screen
  • Creator: Michael R. Boyd
  • Publisher: Lippincott
  • Date: 1989
  • Language: English
  • Citation:
    • Boyd M.R., Status of the NCI preclinical antitumor drug discovery screen. In: DeVita V.T. Jr., Hellman S., Rosenberg S.A. (eds.), Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology Updates, vol. 3, no. 10. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1–12, 1989.

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Publisher Information

  • Prepared for the Wolfram Data Repository By: Jan Mangaldan
  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research