1. Community-Reviewed Biological Network Models for Toxicology and Drug Discovery Applications
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Sergey Davidyan, Stéphanie Boué, Ángela María Fajardo Lacave, Marja Talikka, Julia Hoeng, Rubén Amián Ruiz, Svetlana Guryanova, Yang Xiang, Shaman Narayanasamy, Manuel González Vélez Racero, Jorge Val Calvo, Maria Biryukov, Aishwarya Alex Namasivayam, Ganna Androsova, Irina Shvydchenko, Rajesh Mandarapu, Dheeraj Reddy Bobbili, Alejandro Ferreiro Morales, Swapna Menon, Noberto Díaz-Díaz, Modesto Berraquero Pérez, David Garrido Alfaro, Borislav Simovic, Neha Rohatgi, Jennifer Park, Aravind Tallam, Susana Martinez Arbas, Florian Martin, and Manuel C. Peitsch
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0301 basic medicine ,Microbiologie [F11] [Sciences du vivant] ,Computer science ,Pulmonary disease ,Crowdsourcing ,drug discovery ,Toxicology ,03 medical and health sciences ,Network verification ,Genetics ,COPD ,Microbiology [F11] [Life sciences] ,lcsh:QH301-705.5 ,Molecular Biology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Original Research ,biological network ,Drug discovery ,business.industry ,Suite ,Computer Science Applications ,030104 developmental biology ,lcsh:Biology (General) ,crowdsourcing ,business ,Biological network ,Network approach ,toxicology - Abstract
Biological network models offer a framework for understanding disease by describing the relationships between the mechanisms involved in the regulation of biological processes. Crowdsourcing can efficiently gather feedback from a wide audience with varying expertise. In the Network Verification Challenge, scientists verified and enhanced a set of 46 biological networks relevant to lung and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The networks were built using Biological Expression Language and contain detailed information for each node and edge, including supporting evidence from the literature. Network scoring of public transcriptomics data inferred perturbation of a subset of mechanisms and networks that matched the measured outcomes. These results, based on a computable network approach, can be used to identify novel mechanisms activated in disease, quantitatively compare different treatments and time points, and allow for assessment of data with low signal. These networks are periodically verified by the crowd to maintain an up-to-date suite of networks for toxicology and drug discovery applications.
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- 2016