Identifying aberrant pathways through integrated analysis of knowledge in pharmacogenomics
Author(s) -
Robert Hoehndorf,
Michel Dumontier,
Georgios V. Gkoutos
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts350
Subject(s) - pharmacogenomics , ontology , disease , drug repositioning , identification (biology) , computational biology , computer science , drug discovery , data science , bioinformatics , drug , biology , medicine , pharmacology , philosophy , botany , epistemology , pathology
Many complex diseases are the result of abnormal pathway functions instead of single abnormalities. Disease diagnosis and intervention strategies must target these pathways while minimizing the interference with normal physiological processes. Large-scale identification of disease pathways and chemicals that may be used to perturb them requires the integration of information about drugs, genes, diseases and pathways. This information is currently distributed over several pharmacogenomics databases. An integrated analysis of the information in these databases can reveal disease pathways and facilitate novel biomedical analyses.
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