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.
Topics
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
Inputs
Outputs
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
PMCID: PMC10721075
Funding: - Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds: BOF20OWB29, BOF20OWB33
- Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek: R-11362