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Rethinking cellular drug response

Large-scale cell line profiling of drugs provides dose-response curves that contain numerous lesser-considered parameters. Understanding the reasons for systematic variation in these parameters offers new ways to compare drugs and potentially to guide improved drug profiles.

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Figure 1: A model for how fractional cell killing may relate to dose-response curve steepness.

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Jenkins, J. Rethinking cellular drug response. Nat Chem Biol 9, 669–670 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.1365

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