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Farmaki A, Manolopoulos E, Natsiavas P. Will Precision Medicine Meet Digital Health? A Systematic Review of Pharmacogenomics Clinical Decision Support Systems Used in Clinical Practice. OMICS : A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY 2024; 28:442-460. [PMID: 39136110 DOI: 10.1089/omi.2024.0131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/05/2024]
Abstract
Digital health, an emerging scientific domain, attracts increasing attention as artificial intelligence and relevant software proliferate. Pharmacogenomics (PGx) is a core component of precision/personalized medicine driven by the overarching motto "the right drug, for the right patient, at the right dose, and the right time." PGx takes into consideration patients' genomic variations influencing drug efficacy and side effects. Despite its potentials for individually tailored therapeutics and improved clinical outcomes, adoption of PGx in clinical practice remains slow. We suggest that e-health tools such as clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) can help accelerate the PGx, precision/personalized medicine, and digital health emergence in everyday clinical practice worldwide. Herein, we present a systematic review that examines and maps the PGx-CDSSs used in clinical practice, including their salient features in both technical and clinical dimensions. Using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis guidelines and research of the literature, 29 relevant journal articles were included in total, and 19 PGx-CDSSs were identified. In addition, we observed 10 technical components developed mostly as part of research initiatives, 7 of which could potentially facilitate future PGx-CDSSs implementation worldwide. Most of these initiatives are deployed in the United States, indicating a noticeable lack of, and the veritable need for, similar efforts globally, including Europe.
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- Anastasia Farmaki
- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Pharmacology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupoli, Greece
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- Institute of Applied Biosciences, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Zhao Y, Brush M, Wang C, Wagner AH, Liu H, Freimuth RR. Leveraging a pharmacogenomics knowledgebase to formulate a drug response phenotype terminology for genomic medicine. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:5279-5287. [PMID: 36222570 PMCID: PMC9710557 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Revised: 05/31/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION Despite the increasing evidence of utility of genomic medicine in clinical practice, systematically integrating genomic medicine information and knowledge into clinical systems with a high-level of consistency, scalability and computability remains challenging. A comprehensive terminology is required for relevant concepts and the associated knowledge model for representing relationships. In this study, we leveraged PharmGKB, a comprehensive pharmacogenomics (PGx) knowledgebase, to formulate a terminology for drug response phenotypes that can represent relationships between genetic variants and treatments. We evaluated coverage of the terminology through manual review of a randomly selected subset of 200 sentences extracted from genetic reports that contained concepts for 'Genes and Gene Products' and 'Treatments'. RESULTS Results showed that our proposed drug response phenotype terminology could cover 96% of the drug response phenotypes in genetic reports. Among 18 653 sentences that contained both 'Genes and Gene Products' and 'Treatments', 3011 sentences were able to be mapped to a drug response phenotype in our proposed terminology, among which the most discussed drug response phenotypes were response (994), sensitivity (829) and survival (332). In addition, we were able to re-analyze genetic report context incorporating the proposed terminology and enrich our previously proposed PGx knowledge model to reveal relationships between genetic variants and treatments. In conclusion, we proposed a drug response phenotype terminology that enhanced structured knowledge representation of genomic medicine. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Yiqing Zhao
- Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- The Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH 43205, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Qin W, Lu X, Shu Q, Duan H, Li H. Building an information system to facilitate pharmacogenomics clinical translation with clinical decision support. Pharmacogenomics 2021; 23:35-48. [PMID: 34787504 DOI: 10.2217/pgs-2021-0110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Pharmacogenomics clinical decision support (PGx-CDS) is an important tool to incorporate PGx information into existing clinical workflows and facilitate PGx clinical translation. However, due to the lack of a computable formalization to represent the primary PGx knowledge, the complexity of genomics information and the lag of current commercial electronic health record (EHR) system for precision medicine, it is difficult to develop computerized PGx-CDS. Therefore, we explored a novel approach to build an information system, named the Pharmacogenomics Clinical Translation Platform (PCTP), for PGx clinical implementation. The PCTP can represent, store, and manage the primary PGx knowledge in a structured and computable format. Moreover, it has the potential to provide various PGx-CDS services and simplify the integration of PGx-CDS into EHRs.
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- Weifeng Qin
- The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine & National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou 310052, PR China.,College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China
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- The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine & National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou 310052, PR China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, PR China
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- The Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine & National Clinical Research Center for Child Health, Hangzhou 310052, PR China
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Roosan D, Hwang A, Law AV, Chok J, Roosan MR. The inclusion of health data standards in the implementation of pharmacogenomics systems: a scoping review. Pharmacogenomics 2020; 21:1191-1202. [PMID: 33124487 DOI: 10.2217/pgs-2020-0066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Background: Despite potential benefits, the practice of incorporating pharmacogenomics (PGx) results in clinical decisions has yet to diffuse widely. In this study, we conducted a review of recent discussions on data standards and interoperability with a focus on sharing PGx test results among health systems. Materials & methods: We conducted a literature search for PGx clinical decision support systems between 1 January 2012 and 31 January 2020. Thirty-two out of 727 articles were included for the final review. Results: Nine of the 32 articles mentioned data standards and only four of the 32 articles provided solutions for the lack of interoperability. Discussions: Although PGx interoperability is essential for widespread implementation, a lack of focus on standardized data creates a formidable challenge for health information exchange. Conclusion: Standardization of PGx data is essential to improve health information exchange and the sharing of PGx results between disparate systems. However, PGx data standards and interoperability are often not addressed in the system-level implementation.
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- Don Roosan
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice & Administration, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E 2nd street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA
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- Research Assistant, Department of Pharmacy Practice & Administration, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766, USA
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- Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice & Administration, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766, USA
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- Associate Professor, School of Applied Life Sciences, Keck Graduate Institute, Claremont Colleges, Pomona, CA 91711, USA
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- Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Chapman University, Irvine, CA 92618, USA
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Cacabelos R. Pharmacogenomics of Cognitive Dysfunction and Neuropsychiatric Disorders in Dementia. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:E3059. [PMID: 32357528 PMCID: PMC7246738 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21093059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Revised: 04/21/2020] [Accepted: 04/21/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Symptomatic interventions for patients with dementia involve anti-dementia drugs to improve cognition, psychotropic drugs for the treatment of behavioral disorders (BDs), and different categories of drugs for concomitant disorders. Demented patients may take >6-10 drugs/day with the consequent risk for drug-drug interactions and adverse drug reactions (ADRs >80%) which accelerate cognitive decline. The pharmacoepigenetic machinery is integrated by pathogenic, mechanistic, metabolic, transporter, and pleiotropic genes redundantly and promiscuously regulated by epigenetic mechanisms. CYP2D6, CYP2C9, CYP2C19, and CYP3A4/5 geno-phenotypes are involved in the metabolism of over 90% of drugs currently used in patients with dementia, and only 20% of the population is an extensive metabolizer for this tetragenic cluster. ADRs associated with anti-dementia drugs, antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics, hypnotics, sedatives, and antiepileptic drugs can be minimized by means of pharmacogenetic screening prior to treatment. These drugs are substrates, inhibitors, or inducers of 58, 37, and 42 enzyme/protein gene products, respectively, and are transported by 40 different protein transporters. APOE is the reference gene in most pharmacogenetic studies. APOE-3 carriers are the best responders and APOE-4 carriers are the worst responders; likewise, CYP2D6-normal metabolizers are the best responders and CYP2D6-poor metabolizers are the worst responders. The incorporation of pharmacogenomic strategies for a personalized treatment in dementia is an effective option to optimize limited therapeutic resources and to reduce unwanted side-effects.
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- Ramon Cacabelos
- EuroEspes Biomedical Research Center, International Center of Neuroscience and Genomic Medicine, 15165-Bergondo, Corunna, Spain
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AgriEnt: A Knowledge-Based Web Platform for Managing Insect Pests of Field Crops. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/app10031040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In the agricultural context, there is a great diversity of insects and diseases that affect crops. Moreover, the amount of data available on data sources such as the Web regarding these topics increase every day. This fact can represent a problem when farmers want to make decisions based on this large and dynamic amount of information. This work presents AgriEnt, a knowledge-based Web platform focused on supporting farmers in the decision-making process concerning crop insect pest diagnosis and management. AgriEnt relies on a layered functional architecture comprising four layers: the data layer, the semantic layer, the web services layer, and the presentation layer. This platform takes advantage of ontologies to formally and explicitly describe agricultural entomology experts’ knowledge and to perform insect pest diagnosis. Finally, to validate the AgriEnt platform, we describe a case study on diagnosing the insect pest affecting a crop. The results show that AgriEnt, through the use of the ontology, has proven to produce similar answers as the professional advice given by the entomology experts involved in the evaluation process. Therefore, this platform can guide farmers to make better decisions concerning crop insect pest diagnosis and management.
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Cacabelos R, Cacabelos N, Carril JC. The role of pharmacogenomics in adverse drug reactions. Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol 2019; 12:407-442. [DOI: 10.1080/17512433.2019.1597706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Ramón Cacabelos
- EuroEspes Biomedical Research Center, Institute of Medical Science and Genomic Medicine, Corunna, Spain
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- EuroEspes Biomedical Research Center, Institute of Medical Science and Genomic Medicine, Corunna, Spain
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- EuroEspes Biomedical Research Center, Institute of Medical Science and Genomic Medicine, Corunna, Spain
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Monnin P, Legrand J, Husson G, Ringot P, Tchechmedjiev A, Jonquet C, Napoli A, Coulet A. PGxO and PGxLOD: a reconciliation of pharmacogenomic knowledge of various provenances, enabling further comparison. BMC Bioinformatics 2019; 20:139. [PMID: 30999867 PMCID: PMC6471679 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-019-2693-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Background Pharmacogenomics (PGx) studies how genomic variations impact variations in drug response phenotypes. Knowledge in pharmacogenomics is typically composed of units that have the form of ternary relationships gene variant – drug – adverse event. Such a relationship states that an adverse event may occur for patients having the specified gene variant and being exposed to the specified drug. State-of-the-art knowledge in PGx is mainly available in reference databases such as PharmGKB and reported in scientific biomedical literature. But, PGx knowledge can also be discovered from clinical data, such as Electronic Health Records (EHRs), and in this case, may either correspond to new knowledge or confirm state-of-the-art knowledge that lacks “clinical counterpart” or validation. For this reason, there is a need for automatic comparison of knowledge units from distinct sources. Results In this article, we propose an approach, based on Semantic Web technologies, to represent and compare PGx knowledge units. To this end, we developed PGxO, a simple ontology that represents PGx knowledge units and their components. Combined with PROV-O, an ontology developed by the W3C to represent provenance information, PGxO enables encoding and associating provenance information to PGx relationships. Additionally, we introduce a set of rules to reconcile PGx knowledge, i.e. to identify when two relationships, potentially expressed using different vocabularies and levels of granularity, refer to the same, or to different knowledge units. We evaluated our ontology and rules by populating PGxO with knowledge units extracted from PharmGKB (2701), the literature (65,720) and from discoveries reported in EHR analysis studies (only 10, manually extracted); and by testing their similarity. We called PGxLOD (PGx Linked Open Data) the resulting knowledge base that represents and reconciles knowledge units of those various origins. Conclusions The proposed ontology and reconciliation rules constitute a first step toward a more complete framework for knowledge comparison in PGx. In this direction, the experimental instantiation of PGxO, named PGxLOD, illustrates the ability and difficulties of reconciling various existing knowledge sources. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12859-019-2693-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Pierre Monnin
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, 54000, France.
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, 54000, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, 54000, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, 54000, France
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- LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, 34095, France.,Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, California, USA
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, 54000, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA, Nancy, 54000, France.,Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, California, USA
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Karim MR, Michel A, Zappa A, Baranov P, Sahay R, Rebholz-Schuhmann D. Improving data workflow systems with cloud services and use of open data for bioinformatics research. Brief Bioinform 2019; 19:1035-1050. [PMID: 28419324 PMCID: PMC6169675 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbx039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Data workflow systems (DWFSs) enable bioinformatics researchers to combine components for data access and data analytics, and to share the final data analytics approach with their collaborators. Increasingly, such systems have to cope with large-scale data, such as full genomes (about 200 GB each), public fact repositories (about 100 TB of data) and 3D imaging data at even larger scales. As moving the data becomes cumbersome, the DWFS needs to embed its processes into a cloud infrastructure, where the data are already hosted. As the standardized public data play an increasingly important role, the DWFS needs to comply with Semantic Web technologies. This advancement to DWFS would reduce overhead costs and accelerate the progress in bioinformatics research based on large-scale data and public resources, as researchers would require less specialized IT knowledge for the implementation. Furthermore, the high data growth rates in bioinformatics research drive the demand for parallel and distributed computing, which then imposes a need for scalability and high-throughput capabilities onto the DWFS. As a result, requirements for data sharing and access to public knowledge bases suggest that compliance of the DWFS with Semantic Web standards is necessary. In this article, we will analyze the existing DWFS with regard to their capabilities toward public open data use as well as large-scale computational and human interface requirements. We untangle the parameters for selecting a preferable solution for bioinformatics research with particular consideration to using cloud services and Semantic Web technologies. Our analysis leads to research guidelines and recommendations toward the development of future DWFS for the bioinformatics research community.
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- Md Rezaul Karim
- Semantics in eHealth and Life Sciences (SeLS), Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway, Dangan, Galway, Ireland
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- School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Semantics in eHealth and Life Sciences (SeLS), Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
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Wang Y, Zhang X, Ding S, Geng Y, Liu J, Zhao Z, Zhang R, Xiao X, Wang J. A graph-based algorithm for estimating clonal haplotypes of tumor sample from sequencing data. BMC Med Genomics 2019; 12:27. [PMID: 30704456 PMCID: PMC6357344 DOI: 10.1186/s12920-018-0457-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Haplotype phasing is an important step in many bioinformatics workflows. In cancer genomics, it is suggested that reconstructing the clonal haplotypes of a tumor sample could facilitate a comprehensive understanding of its clonal architecture and further provide valuable reference in clinical diagnosis and treatment. However, the sequencing data is an admixture of reads sampled from different clonal haplotypes, which complicates the computational problem by exponentially increasing the solution-space and leads the existing algorithms to an unacceptable time-/space- complexity. In addition, the evolutionary process among clonal haplotypes further weakens those algorithms by bringing indistinguishable candidate solutions. RESULTS To improve the algorithmic performance of phasing clonal haplotypes, in this article, we propose MixSubHap, which is a graph-based computational pipeline working on cancer sequencing data. To reduce the computation complexity, MixSubHap adopts three bounding strategies to limit the solution space and filter out false positive candidates. It first estimates the global clonal structure by clustering the variant allelic frequencies on sampled point mutations. This offers a priori on the number of clonal haplotypes when copy-number variations are not considered. Then, it utilizes a greedy extension algorithm to approximately find the longest linkage of the locally assembled contigs. Finally, it incorporates a read-depth stripping algorithm to filter out false linkages according to the posterior estimation of tumor purity and the estimated percentage of each sub-clone in the sample. A series of experiments are conducted to verify the performance of the proposed pipeline. CONCLUSIONS The results demonstrate that MixSubHap is able to identify about 90% on average of the preset clonal haplotypes under different simulation configurations. Especially, MixSubHap is robust when decreasing the mutation rates, in which cases the longest assembled contig could reach to 10kbps, while the accuracy of assigning a mutation to its haplotype still keeps more than 60% on average. MixSubHap is considered as a practical algorithm to reconstruct clonal haplotypes from cancer sequencing data. The source codes have been uploaded and maintained at https://github.com/YixuanWang1120/MixSubHap for academic use only.
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- Yixuan Wang
- Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Medical and Health Big Data, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Medical and Health Big Data, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
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- School of Management, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Process Optimization and Intelligent Decision-Making, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 23009 China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Medical and Health Big Data, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Medical and Health Big Data, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Medical and Health Big Data, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Medical and Health Big Data, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
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- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Medical and Health Big Data, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
- Institute of Health Administration and Policy, School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
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- Department of Computer Science and Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
- Shaanxi Engineering Research Center of Medical and Health Big Data, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710048 China
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Jing X, Hardiker NR, Kay S, Gao Y. Identifying Principles for the Construction of an Ontology-Based Knowledge Base: A Case Study Approach. JMIR Med Inform 2018; 6:e52. [PMID: 30578220 PMCID: PMC6320437 DOI: 10.2196/medinform.9979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Revised: 04/25/2018] [Accepted: 07/19/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Ontologies are key enabling technologies for the Semantic Web. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a semantic markup language for publishing and sharing ontologies. Objective The supply of customizable, computable, and formally represented molecular genetics information and health information, via electronic health record (EHR) interfaces, can play a critical role in achieving precision medicine. In this study, we used cystic fibrosis as an example to build an Ontology-based Knowledge Base prototype on Cystic Fibrobis (OntoKBCF) to supply such information via an EHR prototype. In addition, we elaborate on the construction and representation principles, approaches, applications, and representation challenges that we faced in the construction of OntoKBCF. The principles and approaches can be referenced and applied in constructing other ontology-based domain knowledge bases. Methods First, we defined the scope of OntoKBCF according to possible clinical information needs about cystic fibrosis on both a molecular level and a clinical phenotype level. We then selected the knowledge sources to be represented in OntoKBCF. We utilized top-to-bottom content analysis and bottom-up construction to build OntoKBCF. Protégé-OWL was used to construct OntoKBCF. The construction principles included (1) to use existing basic terms as much as possible; (2) to use intersection and combination in representations; (3) to represent as many different types of facts as possible; and (4) to provide 2-5 examples for each type. HermiT 1.3.8.413 within Protégé-5.1.0 was used to check the consistency of OntoKBCF. Results OntoKBCF was constructed successfully, with the inclusion of 408 classes, 35 properties, and 113 equivalent classes. OntoKBCF includes both atomic concepts (such as amino acid) and complex concepts (such as “adolescent female cystic fibrosis patient”) and their descriptions. We demonstrated that OntoKBCF could make customizable molecular and health information available automatically and usable via an EHR prototype. The main challenges include the provision of a more comprehensive account of different patient groups as well as the representation of uncertain knowledge, ambiguous concepts, and negative statements and more complicated and detailed molecular mechanisms or pathway information about cystic fibrosis. Conclusions Although cystic fibrosis is just one example, based on the current structure of OntoKBCF, it should be relatively straightforward to extend the prototype to cover different topics. Moreover, the principles underpinning its development could be reused for building alternative human monogenetic diseases knowledge bases.
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- Xia Jing
- Department of Social and Public Health, College of Health Sciences and Professions, Ohio University, Athens, OH, United States
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- School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
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- International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, London, United Kingdom
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Xiao M, Shi Z, Wang S. The Impact on Citation Analysis Based on Ontology and Linked Data. Scientometrics 2018. [DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.76377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Amith M, He Z, Bian J, Lossio-Ventura JA, Tao C. Assessing the practice of biomedical ontology evaluation: Gaps and opportunities. J Biomed Inform 2018; 80:1-13. [PMID: 29462669 PMCID: PMC5882531 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2017] [Revised: 02/12/2018] [Accepted: 02/16/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
With the proliferation of heterogeneous health care data in the last three decades, biomedical ontologies and controlled biomedical terminologies play a more and more important role in knowledge representation and management, data integration, natural language processing, as well as decision support for health information systems and biomedical research. Biomedical ontologies and controlled terminologies are intended to assure interoperability. Nevertheless, the quality of biomedical ontologies has hindered their applicability and subsequent adoption in real-world applications. Ontology evaluation is an integral part of ontology development and maintenance. In the biomedicine domain, ontology evaluation is often conducted by third parties as a quality assurance (or auditing) effort that focuses on identifying modeling errors and inconsistencies. In this work, we first organized four categorical schemes of ontology evaluation methods in the existing literature to create an integrated taxonomy. Further, to understand the ontology evaluation practice in the biomedicine domain, we reviewed a sample of 200 ontologies from the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) BioPortal-the largest repository for biomedical ontologies-and observed that only 15 of these ontologies have documented evaluation in their corresponding inception papers. We then surveyed the recent quality assurance approaches for biomedical ontologies and their use. We also mapped these quality assurance approaches to the ontology evaluation criteria. It is our anticipation that ontology evaluation and quality assurance approaches will be more widely adopted in the development life cycle of biomedical ontologies.
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- Muhammad Amith
- School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- School of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
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Freimuth RR, Formea CM, Hoffman JM, Matey E, Peterson JF, Boyce RD. Implementing Genomic Clinical Decision Support for Drug-Based Precision Medicine. CPT-PHARMACOMETRICS & SYSTEMS PHARMACOLOGY 2017; 6:153-155. [PMID: 28109071 PMCID: PMC5351408 DOI: 10.1002/psp4.12173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Revised: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 01/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The explosive growth of patient-specific genomic information relevant to drug therapy will continue to be a defining characteristic of biomedical research. To implement drug-based personalized medicine (PM) for patients, clinicians need actionable information incorporated into electronic health records (EHRs). New clinical decision support (CDS) methods and informatics infrastructure are required in order to comprehensively integrate, interpret, deliver, and apply the full range of genomic data for each patient.
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- R R Freimuth
- Department of Health Sciences Research, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Khelifi M, Tarczy-Hornoch P, Devine EB, Pratt W. Design Recommendations for Pharmacogenomics Clinical Decision Support Systems. AMIA JOINT SUMMITS ON TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE PROCEEDINGS. AMIA JOINT SUMMITS ON TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2017; 2017:237-246. [PMID: 28815136 PMCID: PMC5543362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The use of pharmacogenomics (PGx) in clinical practice still faces challenges to fully adopt genetic information in targeting drug therapy. To incorporate genetics into clinical practice, many support the use of Pharmacogenomics Clinical Decision Support Systems (PGx-CDS) for medication prescriptions. This support was fueled by new guidelines to incorporate genetics for optimizing drug dosage and reducing adverse events. In addition, the complexity of PGx led to exploring CDS outside the paradigm of the basic CDS tools embedded in commercial electronic health records. Therefore, designing the right CDS is key to unleashing the full potential of pharmacogenomics and making it a part of clinicians' daily workflow. In this work, we 1) identify challenges and barriers of the implementation of PGx-CDS in clinical settings, 2) develop a new design approach to CDS with functional characteristics that can improve the adoption of pharmacogenomics guidelines and thus patient safety, and 3) create design guidelines and recommendations for such PGx-CDS tools.
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Lamy JB, Berthelot H, Favre M, Ugon A, Duclos C, Venot A. Using visual analytics for presenting comparative information on new drugs. J Biomed Inform 2017; 71:58-69. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2017.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2017] [Revised: 04/26/2017] [Accepted: 04/27/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Ontology Based Possibilistic Reasoning for Breast Cancer Aided Diagnosis. INFORM SYST 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65930-5_29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Morente-Molinera J, Pérez I, Ureña M, Herrera-Viedma E. Creating knowledge databases for storing and sharing people knowledge automatically using group decision making and fuzzy ontologies. Inf Sci (N Y) 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2015.08.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Linan MK, Sottara D, Freimuth RR. Creating Shareable Clinical Decision Support Rules for a Pharmacogenomics Clinical Guideline Using Structured Knowledge Representation. AMIA ... ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS. AMIA SYMPOSIUM 2015; 2015:1985-1994. [PMID: 26958298 PMCID: PMC4765632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Pharmacogenomics (PGx) guidelines contain drug-gene relationships, therapeutic and clinical recommendations from which clinical decision support (CDS) rules can be extracted, rendered and then delivered through clinical decision support systems (CDSS) to provide clinicians with just-in-time information at the point of care. Several tools exist that can be used to generate CDS rules that are based on computer interpretable guidelines (CIG), but none have been previously applied to the PGx domain. We utilized the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the Health Level 7 virtual medical record (HL7 vMR) model, and standard terminologies to represent the semantics and decision logic derived from a PGx guideline, which were then mapped to the Health eDecisions (HeD) schema. The modeling and extraction processes developed here demonstrate how structured knowledge representations can be used to support the creation of shareable CDS rules from PGx guidelines.
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- Margaret K Linan
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ; Office of Information and Knowledge Management, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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- Office of Information and Knowledge Management, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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Balatsoukas P, Williams R, Davies C, Ainsworth J, Buchan I. User Interface Requirements for Web-Based Integrated Care Pathways: Evidence from the Evaluation of an Online Care Pathway Investigation Tool. J Med Syst 2015; 39:183. [DOI: 10.1007/s10916-015-0357-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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A fuzzy-ontology-oriented case-based reasoning framework for semantic diabetes diagnosis. Artif Intell Med 2015; 65:179-208. [PMID: 26303105 DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2015.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2014] [Revised: 06/02/2015] [Accepted: 08/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Case-based reasoning (CBR) is a problem-solving paradigm that uses past knowledge to interpret or solve new problems. It is suitable for experience-based and theory-less problems. Building a semantically intelligent CBR that mimic the expert thinking can solve many problems especially medical ones. METHODS Knowledge-intensive CBR using formal ontologies is an evolvement of this paradigm. Ontologies can be used for case representation and storage, and it can be used as a background knowledge. Using standard medical ontologies, such as SNOMED CT, enhances the interoperability and integration with the health care systems. Moreover, utilizing vague or imprecise knowledge further improves the CBR semantic effectiveness. This paper proposes a fuzzy ontology-based CBR framework. It proposes a fuzzy case-base OWL2 ontology, and a fuzzy semantic retrieval algorithm that handles many feature types. MATERIAL This framework is implemented and tested on the diabetes diagnosis problem. The fuzzy ontology is populated with 60 real diabetic cases. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is illustrated with a set of experiments and case studies. RESULTS The resulting system can answer complex medical queries related to semantic understanding of medical concepts and handling of vague terms. The resulting fuzzy case-base ontology has 63 concepts, 54 (fuzzy) object properties, 138 (fuzzy) datatype properties, 105 fuzzy datatypes, and 2640 instances. The system achieves an accuracy of 97.67%. We compare our framework with existing CBR systems and a set of five machine-learning classifiers; our system outperforms all of these systems. CONCLUSION Building an integrated CBR system can improve its performance. Representing CBR knowledge using the fuzzy ontology and building a case retrieval algorithm that treats different features differently improves the accuracy of the resulting systems.
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