To cite octad.db in publications use:

  Zeng, B., Glickberg, B., Newbury, P, Chekalin, E., Xing, J., Liu, K.,
  Wen, A., Chow, C., Chen, B., OCTAD: an open workspace for virtually
  screening therapeutics targeting precise cancer patient groups using
  gene expression features.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Article{,
    title = {OCTAD: an open workspace for virtually screening therapeutics targeting precise cancer patient groups using gene expression features},
    author = {E. Chekalin and S. Paithankar and B. Zeng and B. Glicksberg and P. Newbury and J. Xing and K. Liu and A. Wen and D. Joseph and B. Chen},
    journal = {Nature protocols},
    year = {2021},
    number = {16},
    pages = {728-753},
    url = {http://octad.org/},
  }