2016 acs semantic approaches for biochemical knowledge discovery

Semantic Approachesfor Biochemical Knowledge Discovery

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Michel Dumontier, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics)Stanford University

@micheldumontier::ACS:15-03-2016

Science!


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Most published research findings are false.- John Ioannidis, Stanford University


Science is hard.

Scientific knowledge is growing at an unprecedented rate


Reusing raw and curated data in thousands of databases is challenging: identifiers, formats, access methods, links


Various software are needed to analyze data(problems: OS, versioning, input/output formats)


Ultimately, scientists develop fairly sophisticated programs/workflows to test hypotheses


The absence of intelligent systems

requires vast amounts of experience and technical expertise


How can we automatically find the evidence that support or dispute a scientific hypothesis using the latest data, tools and scientific knowledge?


So what do we need to achieve this?

1. Data Science Tools and Methods– To identify, represent, interlink, integrate, and query

data and services– To identify and uncover support for known or novel

associations

2. Community Standards to share and interrogate a massive, decentralized network of interconnected data and software


First, we need FAIR data

Findable– Globally unique identifiers for datasets and the data they contain– Rich set of descriptors to search and filter with– Indexed and searchable

Accessible– Metadata is eternally available.– Identifiers are used to retrieve representations using standard protocols (e.g.

HTTP)

Interoperable– Data represented with formal knowledge representations– Include links to other datasets/vocabularies

Reusable– Licensing, Provenance, Community standards


“Numbers have no way of speaking for themselves. We need to imbue them with meaning.” - Nate Silver, The signal and the noise


FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable

See paper for motivation and examples

We are now starting to think about quality measures.

The Semantic Webis the new global web of knowledge


standards for publishing, sharing and querying facts, expert knowledge and services

scalable approach for the discoveryof independently formulated

and distributed knowledge

Linked Data is FAIR data

15 @micheldumontier::ACS:15-03-2016Linking Open Data cloud diagram 2014, by Max Schmachtenberg, Christian Bizer, Anja Jentzsch and Richard Cyganiak. http://lod-cloud.net/"


Linked Data for the Life Sciences

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Bio2RDF is an open source project to unify the representation and interlinking of biological data using RDF.

chemicals/drugs/formulations, genomes/genes/proteins, domainsInteractions, complexes & pathwaysanimal models and phenotypesDisease, genetic markers, treatmentsTerminologies & publications

• 11B+ interlinked statements from 35 biomedical datasets

• dataset description, provenance & statistics• A growing interoperable ecosystem with the EBI,

NCBI, DBCLS, NCBO, OpenPHACTS, and commercial tool providers

Bio2RDF shows how datasets are connected together


graph methods for data qualityto find mismatches and discover new links


W Hu, H Qiu, M Dumontier. Link Analysis of Life Science Linked Data. International Semantic Web Conference (2) 2015: 446-462.

Federated Queriesover public SPARQL EndPoints

Get all protein catabolic processes (and more specific GO terms) in biomodels

SELECT ?go ?label count(distinct ?x) WHERE {service <http://bioportal.bio2rdf.org/sparql> {

?go rdfs:label ?label .?go rdfs:subClassOf+ ?tgo?tgo rdfs:label ?tlabel .FILTER regex(?tlabel, "^protein catabolic process")}service <http://biomodels.bio2rdf.org/sparql> {?x <http://bio2rdf.org/biopax_vocabulary:identical-to> ?go . ?x a <http://www.biopax.org/release/biopax-level3.owl#BiochemicalReaction> .

}}


EbolaKBUsing Linked Data and Software


Kamdar, Dumontier. An Ebola virus-centered knowledge base. Database. 2015 Jun 8;2015. doi: 10.1093/database/bav049.


Network analysis and discovery

Jim McCusker & Deb McGuiness

David Wild, Ying Ding


HyQue

tactical formalization


Take what you needand represent it in a way that directly serves your objective

STANDARDSfor broader reuse

APPLICATIONSfor optimized experience

High Quality Metadata are Essential

for Large-Scale Reuse and Biomedical Discovery


Making it Easier, Possibly Even Pleasant, to Author Interoperable Experimental Metadata


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metadatacenter.org

NIH COMMONS


http://metadatacenter.org/

smartAPI

The goal is to reduce the barrier for the discovery andreuse of web APIs through richer semantic metadata.

i) a coordinated facility for the intelligent annotation ofsmart APIs

ii) a web application to discover smart APIs and howthey connect to each other.

iii) The augmentation of existing APIs to provide FAIRdata


smartAPI

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Gene

myGene.infomyVariant.info

Linking API Data

Web Services

Linked DataCloud


Evan’s Questions

• What should we be doing now?– Encouraging researchers to publish FAIR data and

services• How should we be doing it?

– As Linked Data – Institutional repositories and available in wikidata and

other aggregators• Where are things going in the future?

– Reproducible analyses over indexed, archived, and massively connected knowledge graphs


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