RESEARCH ARTICLE Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays Jonathan A. Lee1☯, Paul Shinn2☯, Susan Jaken1☯, Sarah Oliver1, Francis S. Willard1, Steven Heidler1, Robert B. Peery1, Jennifer Oler1, Shaoyou Chu1, Noel Southall2, Thomas S. Dexheimer2, Jeffrey Smallwood1, Ruili Huang2, Rajarshi Guha2, Ajit Jadhav2, Karen Cox1, Christopher P. Austin2, Anton Simeonov2, G. Sitta Sittampalam2, Saba Husain1, Natalie Franklin1, David J. Wild3, Jeremy J. Yang3, Jeffrey J. Sutherland1*, a11111 Craig J. Thomas2* 1 Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, 2 Division of Preclinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America ☯ These authors contributed equally to this work. *
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[email protected] (CJT) OPEN ACCESS Citation: Lee JA, Shinn P, Jaken S, Oliver S, Willard FS, Heidler S, et al. (2015) Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Abstract Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Phenotypic assays have a proven track record for generating leads that become first-in- Assays. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0130796. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0130796 class therapies. Whole cell assays that inform on a phenotype or mechanism also possess great potential in drug repositioning studies by illuminating new activities for the existing Editor: Bridget Wagner, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, UNITED STATES pharmacopeia. The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) phar- maceutical collection (NPC) is the largest reported collection of approved small molecule Received: March 10, 2015 therapeutics that is available for screening in a high-throughput setting.