Community Assessment of the Predictability of Cancer Protein and Phosphoprotein Levels from Genomics and Transcriptomics.

TitleCommunity Assessment of the Predictability of Cancer Protein and Phosphoprotein Levels from Genomics and Transcriptomics.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsYang, M, Petralia, F, Li, Z, Li, H, Ma, W, Song, X, Kim, S, Lee, H, Yu, H, Lee, B, Bae, S, Heo, E, Kaczmarczyk, J, Stępniak, P, Warchoł, M, Yu, T, Calinawan, AP, Boutros, PC, Payne, SH, Reva, B, Boja, E, Rodriguez, H, Stolovitzky, G, Guan, Y, Kang, J, Wang, P, Fenyö, D, Saez-Rodriguez, J
Corporate AuthorsNCI-CPTAC-DREAM Consortium
JournalCell Syst
Volume11
Issue2
Pagination186-195.e9
Date Published2020 08 26
ISSN2405-4720
KeywordsCrowdsourcing; Female; Genomics; Humans; Machine Learning; Male; Neoplasms; Phosphoproteins; Proteins; Proteomics; Transcriptome
Abstract

Cancer is driven by genomic alterations, but the processes causing this disease are largely performed by proteins. However, proteins are harder and more expensive to measure than genes and transcripts. To catalyze developments of methods to infer protein levels from other omics measurements, we leveraged crowdsourcing via the NCI-CPTAC DREAM proteogenomic challenge. We asked for methods to predict protein and phosphorylation levels from genomic and transcriptomic data in cancer patients. The best performance was achieved by an ensemble of models, including as predictors transcript level of the corresponding genes, interaction between genes, conservation across tumor types, and phosphosite proximity for phosphorylation prediction. Proteins from metabolic pathways and complexes were the best and worst predicted, respectively. The performance of even the best-performing model was modest, suggesting that many proteins are strongly regulated through translational control and degradation. Our results set a reference for the limitations of computational inference in proteogenomics. A record of this paper's transparent peer review process is included in the Supplemental Information.

DOI10.1016/j.cels.2020.06.013
Alternate JournalCell Syst
PubMed ID32710834
Grant ListU24 CA210972 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States