Abstract 2804: Identifying therapeutically relevant mouse and patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of human cancer using the mouse tumor biology database (MTB) data resource
Authors: Begley Dale A. , Krupke Debra M. , Neuhauser Steven B. , Richardson Joel E. , Sundberg John P. , Eppig Janan T. , Bult Carol J. 
Published: July 2017

The laboratory mouse is the foremost model organism for interrogating the genetic and molecular basis of human cancer and is a powerful platform for identifying therapeutically effective targets for prevention and treatment of cancer. Research using genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) have led to important advances in our understanding of the genetic basis of cancer susceptibility, the function of tumor suppressors and oncogenes, and therapy responses in preclinical and co-clinical studies. Patient Derived Xenograft (PDX) models are an increasingly important model system for in vivo studies of human cancer. These models are created by implanting patient tumors into immunodeficient or humanized mouse hosts and are a powerful translational research platform for preclinical and co-clinical studies. The number of GEMM and PDX mouse models increases significantly every year and the diverse cancer-related data about human cancer models tend to be distributed in ways that makes it difficult for researchers to integrate and interpret the information to find the most relevant model for their research. The Mouse Tumor Biology database (http://tumor.informatics.jax.org) is an expertly curated resource for information and data about genetically defined mouse strains and PDX models of human cancer. MTB provides query tools to enable integrated searches and visualization of these varied data, thus facilitating the assessment of novel mouse models of human cancer and potential preventative and therapeutic treatments. Enforcement of controlled vocabularies and standard gene, allele and strain nomenclature within MTB facilitates precise and comprehensive queries of MTB for pertinent mouse models. MTB contains data from spontaneous or endogenously induced tumors from genetically defined mice including tumor classification, incidence, Quantitative Trait Loci, pathology reports, images and genetic changes in the tumor (somatic) and background strain (germline) genomes. The PDX resource enables queries based on tumor type, cancer diagnosis and genomic properties of the engrafted tumors. Information in MTB is obtained from curation of peer-reviewed scientific publications and direct data submissions from individual investigators and large-scale programs. New features in MTB include the Faceted Tumor Search Form and a Reported Mouse Models table linking the most common fatal human cancers to reported equivalent mouse models. MTB contains over 77,000 Tumor Frequencies and over 2,200 Pathology Reports with over 6,600 images from over 4,200 references. MTB provides access to detailed clinical, pathological, expression and genomics data from over 400 PDX models. Information in MTB is integrated with cancer models data from other bioinformatics resources including PathBase, the Gene Expression Omnibus and ArrayExpress. MTB is supported by NCI grant CA089713.

Citation Format: Dale A. Begley, Debra M. Krupke, Steven B. Neuhauser, Joel E. Richardson, John P. Sundberg, Janan T. Eppig, Carol J. Bult. Identifying therapeutically relevant mouse and patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models of human cancer using the mouse tumor biology database (MTB) data resource [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2017; 2017 Apr 1-5; Washington, DC. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2017;77(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 2804. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2017-2804