PMID- 31143201 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20231104 IS - 1664-8021 (Print) IS - 1664-8021 (Electronic) IS - 1664-8021 (Linking) VI - 10 DP - 2019 TI - Quality Control of Quantitative High Throughput Screening Data. PG - 387 LID - 10.3389/fgene.2019.00387 [doi] LID - 387 AB - Quantitative high throughput screening (qHTS) experiments can generate 1000s of concentration-response profiles to screen compounds for potentially adverse effects. However, potency estimates for a single compound can vary considerably in study designs incorporating multiple concentration-response profiles for each compound. We introduce an automated quality control procedure based on analysis of variance (ANOVA) to identify and filter out compounds with multiple cluster response patterns and improve potency estimation in qHTS assays. Our approach, called Cluster Analysis by Subgroups using ANOVA (CASANOVA), clusters compound-specific response patterns into statistically supported subgroups. Applying CASANOVA to 43 publicly available qHTS data sets, we found that only about 20% of compounds with response values outside of the noise band have single cluster responses. The error rates for incorrectly separating true clusters and incorrectly clumping disparate clusters were both less than 5% in extensive simulation studies. Simulation studies also showed that the bias and variance of concentration at half-maximal response (AC(50) ) estimates were usually within 10-fold when using a weighted average approach for potency estimation. In short, CASANOVA effectively sorts out compounds with "inconsistent" response patterns and produces trustworthy AC(50) values. FAU - Shockley, Keith R AU - Shockley KR AD - Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Durham, NC, United States. FAU - Gupta, Shuva AU - Gupta S AD - Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. FAU - Harris, Shawn F AU - Harris SF AD - Social and Scientific Systems, Durham, NC, United States. FAU - Lahiri, Soumendra N AU - Lahiri SN AD - Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States. FAU - Peddada, Shyamal D AU - Peddada SD AD - Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States. LA - eng GR - HHSN273201600011C/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States GR - ZIA ES102865/ImNIH/Intramural NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20190509 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Genet JT - Frontiers in genetics JID - 101560621 PMC - PMC6520559 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ANOVA OT - clustering OT - concentration-response OT - potency OT - quantitative high throughput screening OT - toxicological response EDAT- 2019/05/31 06:00 MHDA- 2019/05/31 06:01 PMCR- 2019/05/09 CRDT- 2019/05/31 06:00 PHST- 2018/05/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/04/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/05/31 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/05/31 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/05/31 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/05/09 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fgene.2019.00387 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Genet. 2019 May 9;10:387. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2019.00387. eCollection 2019.