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Multi-omics Data Integration, Interpretation, and Its Application

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Subramanian, Indhupriya, Verma, Srikant, Kumar, Shiva, Jere, Abhay, Anamika, Krishanpal·2020·Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

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To study complex biological processes holistically, it is imperative to take an integrative approach that combines multi-omics data to highlight the interrelationships of the involved biomolecules and their functions. With the advent of high-throughput techniques and availability of multi-omics data generated from a large set of samples, several promising tools and methods have been developed for data integration and interpretation. In this review, we collected the tools and methods that adopt integrative approach to analyze multiple omics data and summarized their ability to address applications such as disease subtyping, biomarker prediction, and deriving insights into the data. We provide the methodology, use-cases, and limitations of these tools; brief account of multi-omics data repositories and visualization portals; and challenges associated with multi-omics data integration.

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  • These methods can be divided into categories, such as Bayesian integration, network and pathway integration, fusion-based integration, similarity-based integration, and other multivariate approaches.

    “These methods can be divided into categories, such as Bayesian integration (e.g., Pathway Recognition Algorithm using Data Integration on Genomic Models (PARADIGM) [97], iClusterPlus [98], Patient-specific data fusion (PSDF) [99]), network and pathway integration (e.g., Similarity network fusion (SNF) [100], PaintOmics [101], MultiGSEA [102], multi-omics gene-set analysis (MOGSA) [103], Cytoscape”
  • A large set of multi-omics data integrative tools and methods have been reported for the discovery of biomarkers.

    “Along with the introduction of high-throughput technologies and the availability of multi-omics data derived from a number of samples, a large set of multi-omics data integrative tools and methods have been reported for the discovery of biomarkers.”

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Subramanian, I., Verma, S., Kumar, S., Jere, A., & Anamika, K.
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Anamika, Krishanpal
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Keywords
multi-omics integration, disease subtyping, biomarker prediction

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