Adaptive Signature Selection and InteGratioN (ASSIGN)
Description
ASSIGN is a computational tool to evaluate the pathway
deregulation/activation status in individual patient samples.
ASSIGN employs a flexible Bayesian factor analysis approach
that adapts predetermined pathway signatures derived either
from knowledge-based literatures or from perturbation
experiments to the cell-/tissue-specific pathway signatures.
The deregulation/activation level of each context-specific
pathway is quantified to a score, which represents the extent
to which a patient sample encompasses the pathway
deregulation/activation signature.