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ReviewBriefings in bioinformatics2025

Bottlenecks in advancing and applying multiomic data integration-common data resources as rate-limiting drivers-the high-impact use case of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Stephanie Bezzina Wettinger, Kanita Karaduzovic-Hadziabdic, Ritienne Attard, Rosienne Farrugia, Brooke N Wolford, Marco Chierici, Giuseppe Jurman, Panagiotis Alexiou, José L Peñalvo, Rafael S Costa and 13 more

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Review in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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23 authors.

Stephanie Bezzina WettingerDepartment of Applied Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, MSD2080, Malta.ORCID 0000-0001-6315-7177
Kanita Karaduzovic-HadziabdicInternational University of Sarajevo, Hrasnicka cesta 15, 71210, Ilidza, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ritienne AttardDepartment of Applied Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, MSD2080, Malta.
Rosienne FarrugiaDepartment of Applied Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, MSD2080, Malta.ORCID 0000-0001-7038-2874
Brooke N WolfordDepartment of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Mauritz Hanssens gate 2, Trondheim, Norway.
Marco ChiericiData Science for Health, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, via Sommarive 18, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Giuseppe JurmanData Science for Health, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, via Sommarive 18, 38123 Trento, Italy.
Panagiotis AlexiouCentre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking, University of Malta, Msida, MSD2080, Malta.ORCID 0000-0003-3437-7482
José L PeñalvoNational Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health, calle Melchor Fernández Almagro 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
Rafael S CostaLAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Campus da Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-7539-488X
José BasílioInstitute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
František SabovčikUnit of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, KU Leuven, Edward van Evenstraat 3, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Rui VitorinoDepartment of Medical Sciences, iBiMED, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal.
Johannes A SchmidInstitute of Vascular Biology and Thrombosis Research, Center for Physiology and Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Schwarzspanierstraße 17, Physiology Building, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Rajesh ShigdelDepartment of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Alrek helseklynge, blokk D, Årstadveien 175009 Bergen, Norway.
Baiba VilneBioinformatics Group, Riga Stradins University, 16 Dzirciema Street, LV-1007, Riga, Latvia.
Artemis G HatzigeorgiouDepartment of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of Thessaly, Papasiopoulou 2-4, 35131 Galaneika - Lamia, Greece and Hellenic Pasteur Institute Vas. Sofias Av 127, 115 21, Greece.
Miron SopicDepartment of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Belgrade, Vojvode Stepe 450, 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia.
Yvan DevauxCardiovascular Research Unit, Department of Precision Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health, 1A-B rue Edison L-1445 Strassen, Luxembourg.ORCID 0000-0002-5321-8543
Paolo MagniDepartment of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences 'Rodolfo Paoletti', Università degli Studi di Milano, via Balzaretti 9, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Maria Tellez-PlazaNational Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health, calle Melchor Fernández Almagro 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain.
David P KreilBioinformatics Research, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Boku University Vienna, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria.
Aleksandra GrucaDepartment of Computer Science and Networks, Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 16, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2337-1894

Funding

COSTEuropean Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme 101110878HORIZON-EIC-2022-Pathfinderchallenges-01-03 TargetMI 101114924HORIZON-WIDERA-2022 BioGeMT 101086768
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite striking successes in identifying novel biomarkers for improved patient stratification and predicting disease progression, numerous challenges remain in the effective integration and exploitation of multiomic data in biomedical applications beyond cancer, for which most bioinformatics strategies are developed and validated. That focus on cancer severely limits the effective development and advancement of algorithms in machine learning and artificial intelligence that do not suffer degraded out-of-domain performance. Generalizability and interpretability of models, however, are also required for robust insights that may translate into clinical practice. Work across different independent datasets is critical for establishing models robust towards unwanted variation in assays, protocols, and cohort populations. Disease-specific context like ethnicity, socioeconomic background, sex, lifestyle, disease phase, and tissue type also strongly affect molecular profiles. We here discuss atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) as a high-impact non-cancer use case for the challenges remaining in the development and application of the latest bioinformatics approaches to multiomics data integration. ASCVD remains the leading cause of death globally. Disease aetiology, progression, and therapy outcome depend on a complex interplay of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. Integrating these diverse data types effectively remains a challenge but holds transformative potential for personalized medicine. Discovery and access to data of sufficient diversity and extent form key bottlenecks. We here compile a first comprehensive overview of key data sets in ASCVD to complement the established cancer-focused resources as a foundation for future effective development and application of state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools for multiomic data integration.

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AtherosclerosisCardiovascular DiseasesComputational BiologyArtificial IntelligenceBiomarkersHumansMachine LearningBiomarkersalgorithm generalizabilityatherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCDV)common data resourcesdata diversitymultiomic data integration

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PMID41071609
PMCPMC12513167

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