PharmCAT commentary in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

A commentary about the Pharmacogenomics Clinical Annotation Tool (PharmCAT) was recently published in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.  PharmCAT is developed in a collaboration between the former PGRN Statistical Analysis Resource (P-STAR) and the Pharmacogenomics Knowledgebase (PharmGKB) with input from other groups (click here for a list of participants). PharmCAT will extract PGx variants, beginning with variants in genes with CPIC guideline recommendations, from VCF files, infer diplotypes/genotypes, and generate an interpretation report containing the relevant CPIC recommendations.

In the article, Teri Klein and Marylyn Ritchie highlight challenges in the field and describe the rationale for PharmCAT. The tool's workflow is depicted graphically and the different components are briefly introduced.

For more information about PharmCAT read the complete commentary at Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.