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Life sciences : Multidisciplinary, general & others
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/24615
Bioinformatics Mining and Modeling Methods for the Identification of Disease Mechanisms in Neurodegenerative Disorders
English
Hofmann-Apitius, Matin mailto [Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing > Department of Bioinformatics]
Ball, Gordon mailto []
Gebel, Stephan mailto [University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) > >]
de Bono, mailto []
Schneider, Reinhard mailto [University of Luxembourg > Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) > >]
Page, M. mailto []
Kodamulli, AT. mailto []
Younesi, E. mailto []
Ebeling, C. mailto []
Tegner, J. mailto []
Canard, L. mailto []
7-Dec-2015
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
16
12
29179-29206
Yes (verified by ORBilu)
International
1422-0067
Basel
Switzerland
[en] mechanism-identification ; bioinformatics ; genetics ; graphical models ; knowledge-based modeling ; multiscale ; neurodegeneration ; data integration ; disease models
[en] Since the decoding of the Human Genome, techniques from bioinformatics, statistics, and machine learning have been instrumental in uncovering patterns in increasing amounts and types of different data produced by technical profiling technologies applied to clinical samples, animal models, and cellular systems. Yet, progress on unravelling biological mechanisms, causally driving diseases, has been limited, in part due to the inherent complexity of biological systems. Whereas we have witnessed progress in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, the area of neurodegenerative diseases has proved to be very challenging. This is in part because the aetiology of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer´s disease or Parkinson´s disease is unknown, rendering it very difficult to discern early causal events. Here we describe a panel of bioinformatics and modeling approaches that have recently been developed to identify candidate mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases based on publicly available data and knowledge. We identify two complementary strategies-data mining techniques using genetic data as a starting point to be further enriched using other data-types, or alternatively to encode prior knowledge about disease mechanisms in a model based framework supporting reasoning and enrichment analysis. Our review illustrates the challenges entailed in integrating heterogeneous, multiscale and multimodal information in the area of neurology in general and neurodegeneration in particular. We conclude, that progress would be accelerated by increasing efforts on performing systematic collection of multiple data-types over time from each individual suffering from neurodegenerative disease. The work presented here has been driven by project AETIONOMY; a project funded in the course of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI); which is a public-private partnership of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations (EFPIA) and the European Commission (EC).
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB): Bioinformatics Core (R. Schneider Group)
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/24615
10.3390/ijms161226148
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26690135

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