Unlocking Proteomic Heterogeneity in Complex Diseases through Visual Analytics

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• Alternative Title:
  Proteomics
• Personal Author:
  Bhavnani, Suresh K. ; Dang, Bryant ; Bellala, Gowtham ; Divekar, Rohit ; Visweswaran, Shyam ; Brasier, Allan ; Kurosky, Alex
• Description:
  Despite years of preclinical development, biological interventions designed to treat complex diseases such as asthma often fail in phase III clinical trials. These failures suggest that current methods to analyze biomedical data might be missing critical aspects of biological complexity such as the assumption that cases and controls come from homogeneous distributions. Here we discuss why and how methods from the rapidly evolving field of visual analytics can help translational teams (consisting of biologists, clinicians, and bioinformaticians) to address the challenge of modeling and inferring heterogeneity in the proteomic and phenotypic profiles of patients with complex diseases. Because a primary goal of visual analytics is to amplify the cognitive capacities of humans for detecting patterns in complex data, we begin with an overview of the cognitive foundations for the field of visual analytics. Next, we organize the primary ways in which a specific form of visual analytics called networks has been used to model and infer biological mechanisms, which help to identify the properties of networks that are particularly useful for the discovery and analysis of proteomic heterogeneity in complex diseases. We describe one such approach called subject-protein networks, and demonstrate its application on two proteomic datasets. This demonstration provides insights to help translational teams overcome theoretical, practical, and pedagogical hurdles for the widespread use of subject-protein networks for analyzing molecular heterogeneities, with the translational goal of designing biomarker-based clinical trials, and accelerating the development of personalized approaches to medicine.
• Subjects:
  Article Boutonneuse Fever Computer Graphics Data Interpretation, Statistical Gene Regulatory Networks Humans Molecular And Clinical Profiles Network Analysis Personalized Medicine Protein Interaction Maps Proteome Proteomic Heterogeneity Proteomics Subject-Protein Networks Visual Analytics

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• Source:
  Proteomics. 15(8):1405-1418.
• Pubmed ID:
  25684269
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4471338
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  1UL1TR000071/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States ; HHSN268201000037C/HV/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States ; HHSN268201000037C-0-0-1/PHS HHS/United States ; KL2 TR000072/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States ; R21 OH009441/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; R21OH009441-01A2/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States ; UL1 TR000071/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d86c698df27dcd4e54cec7f3ddd6e4f3ecf562d48e9b23fae424abd152252443
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/31674/cdc_31674_DS1.pdf
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