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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

ARAX: a graph-based modular reasoning tool for translational biomedicine.

Amy K Glen, Chunyu Ma, Luis Mendoza, Finn Womack, E C Wood, Meghamala Sinha, Liliana Acevedo, Lindsey G Kvarfordt, Ross C Peene, Shaopeng Liu and 5 more

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Amy K GlenSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3691-2290
Chunyu MaHuck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA.
Luis MendozaInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Finn WomackHuck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA.
E C WoodSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3890-4040
Meghamala SinhaSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Liliana AcevedoSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Lindsey G KvarfordtSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Ross C PeeneSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Shaopeng LiuHuck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA.
Andrew S HoffmanInterdisciplinary Hub for Digitalization and Society, Radboud University, Nijmegen 6500GL, The Netherlands.
Jared C RoachInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Eric W DeutschInstitute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Stephen A RamseySchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
David KoslickiHuck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0640-954X

Funding

Biomedical Data Translator Development of Autonomous Relay Agent: ARAXOT2TR003428 · NCATS · OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI DEUTSCH, ERIC, KOSLICKI, DAVID · 2020 to 2024
$5.6M
Biomedical Data Translator Technical Feasibility Assessment of Reasoning Tool: Oregon State UniversityOT2TR002520 · NCATS · OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI DEUTSCH, ERIC, RAMSEY, STEPHEN A. · 2018 to 2019
$1.4M
NCATS NIH HHS OT2 TR002520NCATS NIH HHS OT2 TR003428
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Abstract

motivationWith the rapidly growing volume of knowledge and data in biomedical databases, improved methods for knowledge-graph-based computational reasoning are needed in order to answer translational questions. Previous efforts to solve such challenging computational reasoning problems have contributed tools and approaches, but progress has been hindered by the lack of an expressive analysis workflow language for translational reasoning and by the lack of a reasoning engine-supporting that language-that federates semantically integrated knowledge-bases.

resultsWe introduce ARAX, a new reasoning system for translational biomedicine that provides a web browser user interface and an application programming interface (API). ARAX enables users to encode translational biomedical questions and to integrate knowledge across sources to answer the user's query and facilitate exploration of results. For ARAX, we developed new approaches to query planning, knowledge-gathering, reasoning and result ranking and dynamically integrate knowledge providers for answering biomedical questions. To illustrate ARAX's application and utility in specific disease contexts, we present several use-case examples. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code and technical documentation for building the ARAX server-side software and its built-in knowledge database are freely available online (https://github.com/RTXteam/RTX). We provide a hosted ARAX service with a web browser interface at arax.rtx.ai and a web API endpoint at arax.rtx.ai/api/arax/v1.3/ui/. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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