BioMOBS

BioMOBS integrates multi-omics data, dual visualization components, and an open-source molecular information database to enable pathway analysis and generate biomolecular insights for precision medicine.


Key Features:

  • Dual Visualization Components: Two visualization components enable comparative analysis across multiple omics layers within the workflow.
  • Open-Source Molecular Database Integration: The workflow is linked to an open-source molecular information database to support validation and expansion of molecular findings.
  • Pathway Analysis: Supports exploratory pathway analysis and has been applied to type 2 diabetes data from the UK Biobank, reproducing recent scientific findings.
  • Integration of Data-Driven and Literature-Based Findings: Provides a visualization feature that combines data-driven results with literature-derived knowledge for enriched pathway interpretation.
  • Clinically Relevant Insight Generation: Produces molecular hypotheses and clinically relevant insights from multi-omics analyses to inform precision medicine investigations.

Scientific Applications:

  • Disease Mechanism Discovery: Enables interrogation of molecular underpinnings of diseases using integrated multi-omics data.
  • Hypothesis Generation and Validation: Facilitates generation and validation of molecular hypotheses by combining experimental data with literature and database evidence.
  • Precision Medicine Case Studies: Applicable to precision medicine research, including pathway analyses demonstrated on type 2 diabetes data from the UK Biobank.

Methodology:

Integration of multi-omics data through visualization components, pathway analysis, integration of experimental data with literature-derived findings, and support from an open-source molecular information database.

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Details

License:
CC0-1.0
Cost:
Free of charge
Tool Type:
web application
Operating Systems:
Mac, Linux, Windows
Programming Languages:
JavaScript
Added:
4/19/2024
Last Updated:
11/24/2024

Operations

Data Inputs & Outputs

Pathway analysis

Publications

Heylen D, Peeters J, Aerts J, Ertaylan G, Hooyberghs J. BioMOBS: A multi-omics visual analytics workflow for biomolecular insight generation. PLOS ONE. 2023;18(12):e0295361. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0295361. PMID:38096184. PMCID:PMC10721075.

PMID: 38096184
Funding: - Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds: BOF20OWB29, BOF20OWB33 - Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek: R-11362

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