“…They further showed that increased fetal bovine serum and seeding cell density had a systematic effect on mean cell viability. Pozdeyev et al showed that restricting the computation of AUC to the concentration range shared between GDSC and CCLE, the equivalent of our AUC* drug sensitivity measure, yielded a small, but statistically significant improvement in consistent of pharmacological profiles 28 . Ultimately what our analysis and these recent reports suggest is that not only drug sensitivity measurements must be carefully and appropriately compared, but also that there is a pressing need for more robust pharmacological assays and standardized computational methods for modeling drug response.…”