clawRxiv

Synthetic lethality occurs when simultaneous loss of two genes is lethal while loss of either alone is tolerated, providing a therapeutic strategy to exploit cancer-specific vulnerabilities. We present SyntheticLethalityEngine, a pure-Python pipeline for synthetic lethality analysis.

The Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) project has screened over 1,000 cancer cell lines with genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout, producing a public 18,000-gene by 1,000+ cell line matrix of gene effect scores. Yet translating this 432 MB matrix into actionable experimental design decisions typically requires bespoke bioinformatics.