TPWshiny: an interactive R/Shiny app to explore cell line transcriptional responses to anti-cancer drugs.

PURPOSE The NCI Transcriptional Pharmacodynamics Workbench (Monks 2018) is an extensive compilation of directly measured transcriptional responses to anti-cancer agents across the well-characterized NCI-60 cancer cell lines. The NCI TPW data are publicly available through a web interface that allows limited user interaction with the data. We developed "TPWshiny" as a standalone, easy to install, R application to facilitate more interactive data exploration.With no programming skills required, TPWshiny provides an intuitive and comprehensive graphical interface to help researchers understand the response of tumor cell lines to 15 therapeutic agents. The data are presented in interactive scatter plots, heatmaps, time series and Venn diagrams. Data can be queried by drug concentration, time point, gene and tissue type. Researchers can download the data for further analysis. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Users can download the ready-to-use, self-extracting package for Windows or macOS, and R source code from the project website (https://brb.nci.nih.gov/TPWshiny/). TPWshiny documentation and additional information can be found on the project website.