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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2019

The MultiOmics Explainer: explaining omics results in the context of a pathway/genome database.

Suzanne Paley, Peter D Karp

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. Software tools, databases and resources in metabolomics: updates from 2018 to 2019.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2020
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Suzanne PaleyBioinformatics Research Group, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, 94025, CA, USA. paley@ai.sri.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5763-8935
Peter D KarpBioinformatics Research Group, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, 94025, CA, USA.

Funding

The EcoCyc Model Organism Database for Escherichia coli [SRI Proposal ECU 14-631]U24GM077678 · NIGMS · SRI INTERNATIONAL · PI KARP, PETER D · 2006 to 2018
$12.3M
The EcoCyc Model Organism Database for Escherichia coliR01GM077678 · NIGMS · SRI INTERNATIONAL · PI KARP, PETER D · 2019 to 2022
$4.6M
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health U24GM077678NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM077678NIGMS NIH HHS U24 GM077678
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundHigh-throughput experiments can bring to light associations between genes, proteins and/or metabolites, many of which will be explainable by existing knowledge. Our aim is to speed elucidation of such explanations and, in some cases, find explanations that scientists might otherwise overlook.

resultsWe describe the MultiOmics Explainer, a new tool within the Pathway Tools software suite that leverages what is known about an organism's metabolic and regulatory network to suggest explanations for the results of omics experiments. Querying a database such as EcoCyc, the MultiOmics Explainer searches the organism's network of metabolic reactions, transporters, cofactors, enzyme substrate-level activation and inhibition relationships, and transcriptional and translational regulation relationships to identify paths of influence among input genes, proteins and metabolites. Results are presented in a combined metabolic and regulatory diagram. We present several examples of explanations generated for associations found in the Escherichia coli literature.

conclusionsThe MultiOmics Explainer is a valuable tool that helps researchers understand and interpret the results of their omics experiments in the context of what is known about an organism's metabolic and regulatory network. It showcases the rich set of computational inferences that can be drawn from a database such as EcoCyc that encodes a diverse range of biological interactions.

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Gene Expression ProfilingMetabolomicsProteomicsSoftwareDatabases, FactualDatabases, GeneticEscherichia coliGenomeMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMultiomics analysisNetwork analysisPathfindingPathway/genome databasePathway visualization

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PMID31319812
PMCPMC6637615

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