Integrated Analysis of Multiscale Large-Scale Biological Data for Investigating Human Disease 2016

With the development of high-throughput omics technologies , more and more omics data are generated. It has become common to have multiomics data for the same samples which make the integrative analysis possible. But the data integration is still challenging since there are only a limited number of methods to do such analysis. To stimulate the methodology development and applications of multiomics analysis, we collected 14 novel studies of large scale multiomics data for biomedical researches. P. Y. De Silva and G. U. Ganegoda critically analyzed various methods used for encoding and encrypting data onto DNA and identified the advantages and capability of every scheme to overcome the drawbacks of previous methods. J. Wu et al. integrated the MGI, GEO, and miRNA database to analyze the genetic regulatory networks under morphology difference of integument of humans and mice. And they found that the gene expression network in the skin was highly divergent between human and mouse. L.-W. Liu L. et al. analyzed 303 samples of ovarian serous cystadenocarcinoma and the corresponding RNA-seq data. They established a risk assessment model of five genes and the AUROC value was 0.67 when predicting the survival time in testing set. S. Wang et al. proposed a new hybrid algorithm called HICATS that incorporated imperialist competition algorithm (ICA) which performs global search and tabu search (TS) which conducts fine-tune search. The performance of their method was superior to other similar works. J. Li et al. reviewed the paradigm of differential regulatory analysis (DRA) based on gene coexpression network (GCN). They found that DRA can reveal underlying molecular mechanism in large-scale carcinogenesis studies. B. Liang et al. constructed a non-small cell lung cancer -(NSCLC-) specific functional association network and applied a network partition algorithm to divide the network into gene modules. From these modules, they identified NSCLC biomarkers. B. Liu et al. developed an R package, detection of auto-somal abnormalities for fetus (DASAF), which implements the three most popular trisomy detection methods—the standard í µí± §-score method (STDZ); the GC correction í µí± §-score (GCCZ) method; and the internal reference í µí± §-score (IRZ) method—together with one subchromosome abnormality identification method (SCAZ). Q. Zhang et al. investigated the associations between PM2.5 and 22 disease classes, such as respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and gastrointestinal diseases. They found that several diseases, such as diseases related to ear, nose, and throat and gastrointestinal, nutritional, renal, and cardiovascular diseases, are …