OmicsON - Integration of omics data with molecular networks and statistical procedures

PLoS One. 2020 Jul 29;15(7):e0235398. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235398. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

A huge amount of atomized biological data collected in various databases and the need for a description of their relation by theoretical methods causes the development of data integration methods. The omics data analysis by integration of biological knowledge with mathematical procedures implemented in the OmicsON R library is presented in the paper. OmicsON is a tool for the integration of two sets of data: transcriptomics and metabolomics. In the workflow of the library, the functional grouping and statistical analysis are applied. Subgroups among the transcriptomic and metabolomics sets are created based on the biological knowledge stored in Reactome and String databases. It gives the possibility to analyze such sets of data by multivariate statistical procedures like Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) or Partial Least Squares (PLS). The integration of metabolomic and transcriptomic data based on the methodology contained in OmicsON helps to easily obtain information on the connection of data from two different sets. This information can significantly help in assessing the relationship between gene expression and metabolite concentrations, which in turn facilitates the biological interpretation of the analyzed process.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biometry
  • Computational Biology / trends*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Genomics / methods
  • Humans
  • Metabolomics*
  • Proteomics
  • Software*
  • Transcriptome / genetics*

Grants and funding

The scientific activity of the authors is financed by the Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum under grant K/ZDS/006364. The University gives researchers the freedom to create research directions as well as the way of result publication. It only requires that the journals to which the papers are sent they are important in the scientific community. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.