12/7/2015page 1 service-enabling biomedical research enterprise chapter 5 b. ramamurthy
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Service-enabling Biomedical Research Enterprise
Chapter 5B. Ramamurthy
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Introduction
• Life sciences have witnessed a flurry of innovations triggered by sequencing of human genome as well as genomes of other genomes.
• Area of transformational medicine aims to improve communication between basic and clinical science to allow more therapeutic and diagnostic insights.
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Translational medicine
• From bench to bedside• Exchange ideas, information and
knowledge across organizational, governance, socio-cultural, political and national boundaries.
• Currently mediated by the internet and exponentially-increasing resources
• Digital resources: scientific literature, experimental data, curated annotation (metadata) human and machine generated. Ex: Blast Searches NCBI taxonomy
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Driving principles
• Key requirements: large volume of data to be managed. How?
• Transform to – Digital– Machine readable– Capable of being filtered– Aggregated– Transformed automatically– Context information: use and meaning along with content– Knowledge integration: combines data from research in
mouse genetics, cell bilogy, animal neuropsychology, protein biology, neuropathology, and other areas.
– Attention to drug discovery, systems bilogy and personalized medicine that rely heavily on integrating and interpreting data produced by experiments.
– Heterogenious data
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BioSem Enterprise Architecture
Clinical dataEx: JNI
ResearchKnowledgeEx: Blast
Clinical experimentsEx: drug discovery
Transform resultsEx: integrate,
generate metadata
ontology
AcademicKnowledgeEx: cell,
psychologymolecular
search
Diagnostic tools
Treatmentmethods
DisseminationOf results
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Use case
• Parkinson’s disease (PD): – System physiology perspective– Cellular and molecular biology perspective– Pharmacology relating to chemical
compounds that bind to receptors– Example query: show me the neuronal components that
bind to a ligand which is a therapeutic agent in Parkinson’s disease in reach of the dopaminergic neurons in the substania nigra.
– Domain specific shared semantics and classifications
– Ontologies can help map among the domains and support seamless integration and interoperation.
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Development of Ontologies
• Manual interaction between ontologists in experts
• Textual descriptions are used for adding to this base
• Link pre-existing ontologies for extensive coverage
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Ontology design and creation Approach (fig. 5.1)
Subject matter Knowledge (Text)
Identify core terms And phrases
Map phrases toRelationship between
classes
Model terms using ontologicalConstructs: classes, properties
Arrange classes and relationshipsin subsumption hierarchies
Informationqueries
Pre-existing classificationsAnd ontologies
Identify new classes andrelationships
Refine subsumptionhierarchies
Re-use classes and relationships
Extenf subsumption hierarchies
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Identifying concepts and hierarchies
• Text describing PD in p.105• Study the analysis• Based on the analysis identify important
ontological concepts relevant to PD:– Genes– Proteins– Genetic mutations– Diseases
• See fig. 5.2• Next step is to identify relationship among
concepts
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Identifying and extracting relationships
rdf:Resource
Disease Gene
owl:Thing
LewyBody
ParkinsonDisease
UCHL-1
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Extending the ontology based on information queries
• Consider various queries and identify concepts and relationships needed to be part of PD ontology.
• These concepts are needed to retrieve information and knowledge from the system.
• This lead to additional new concepts. See fig.5.4
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PD: adding concepts to support information queries
owl:Thing
rdfs:Resource
Pathway
AnatomicalEntity
Protein
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Ontology Re-use
• It is desirable to re-use the ontology and vocabulary developed in the healthcare and life-sciences fields.
• Diseases: PD information can be used in Huntington’s and Alzeimer’s. PD can reuse information from International classification of diseases ICD and its subset SNOMED.
• Genes: more genes and genomic concepts such as proteins, pathways are added to ontologies. Consider connecting to Gene Ontology.
• Neurological concepts: Consider using Neuro names 2007.• Enzymes: concepts related to enzymes and other chemicals
may be required; you may use Enzyme Nomenclature 2007• Be aware of inconsistencies and circularities.• Multiple models may emerge; choice should be based on
use cases and functional requirements.
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Data sources
• Now answering the question that we posted in slide#6, three data sources need to be integrated:
• Neuron database, PDSP KI database, PubChem
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Data Integration
• A centralized approach where data available through web based interfaces is converted into RDF and stored in a centralized repository
• A federated approach where data continues to reside in the existing repositories. RDF mediator converts underlying data into RDF format.
• RDF allows for focus on logical structures of information in contrast to only representational format (XML) or storage format (relational).
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Mapping ontological concepts to RDF graphs
• Sample query discussed earlier results in these concepts:– Compartment located_on Neuron– Receptor located_in Compartment– Ligand binds_to Receptor– Ligand associated_with Disease
• Next task to map these into RDF maps in the underlying data sources.
• Using ontological definitions, data sources, SPARQL queries, and name space, RDF graphs are extracted.
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Generation and merging of RDF graphs
D_NeuronUR12
NeuronUR12
D_DendriteUR12
D1UR14
Located_in
Located_in
type
Neuron Database D1UR14
5-H TryptamineUR15
binds_to
PDSPKI Database
Parkinson’s diseaseUR16
5-H TryptamineUR15
associated_with
PubChem database
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Integrated RDF graph
D_NeuronUR12
NeuronUR12
D_DendriteUR12
D1UR14Located_in
Located_in
type
Parkinson’s diseaseUR16
5-H TryptamineUR15
associated_with
binds_to
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Exam question?
• Consider the PD case study that used ontological approach to querying distributed databases.
1. Discuss 10 reasons of using this approach as opposed to common SQL query and relational database approach.
2. Why is Google, Yahoo or MSN search not good enough for searching biological database?
3. Discuss centralized and federated approach to data integration in the context of this case study.
4. Submit a softcopy of the document in the digital drop box.
How to do this? Read Chapter 5, read it again. The answers can be formed from the information provided there and from your experience with relational database systems.
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Summary
• Semantic web technologies provide an attractive technological informatics foundation for enabling the Bench to Bedside Vision.
• Many areas of biomedical research including drug discovery, systems biology, personalized medicine rely heavily on integrating and interpreting heterogeneous data set.
• This is part of ongoing work in the framework of the work being performed in the Healthcare and Life Sciences Interest Group of W3C.