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Chemical Screen: Evaluating drug sensitivity

The study of the cellular response to a chemical compound is crucial to the development of new therapeutic drugs. Such an analysis is usually done by a screen experiment where the disease-specific cells (such as leukemia primary cells) are exposed to chemical compound for different concentrations. The response, in the form of sensitivity, of these cells is conventionally quantified by the IC50 or the l’EC50. Here are some notions to keep in mind when we analyze these values. IC50/EC50 : estimate of [...]

SciPy and Logistic Regressions

Given a set of data points, we often want to see if there exists a satisfying relationship between them. Linear regressions can easily be visualized with Seaborn, a Python library that is meant for exploration and visualization rather than statistical analysis. As for logistic regressions, SciPy is a good tool when one does not have his or her own analysis script. Let's look at the optimize package from scipy.optimize import [...]