Bridging WikiPathways and metabolomics data using the ChEBI ontology

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Bridging WikiPathways and metabolomics

data using the ChEBI ontology

Egon Willighagen

@egonwillighagen, 0000-0001-7542-02869 April 2015

COSMOS RDF, LOD and Semantic Omics data hackathon

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Systems biology: a map of life

Kelder, Thomas, et al. "WikiPathways: building research communities on biological pathways." Nucleic acids research 40.D1 (2012): D1301-D1307.

PathVisio: pathway enrichment (etc)

Van Iersel, M.P., et al. "Presenting and exploring biological pathways with PathVisio." BMC bioinformatics 9.1 (2008): 399. http://pathvisio.org/ Martina Kutmon→

Pathways for the People (CC-BY)

Reactome

Slide: Anwesha Bohler

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Crowd sourcing...

Source: http://wikipathways.org/index.php/WikiPathways:Statistics

Crowd sourcing... but funding helps...

Source: http://wikipathways.org/index.php/WikiPathways:Statistics

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Bridging: identifiers

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So, what IDs are used in WikiPathways?

Curated Collectionsubset

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BridgeDb

Van Iersel, M.P., et al. "The BridgeDb framework: standardized access to gene, protein and metabolite identifier mapping services." BMC Bioinformatics 11.1 (2010): 5.

New tools● Open PHACTS' IMS● Bioclipse● R

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BridgeDb

Metabolite ID Mapping database● HMDB● ChEBI

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BridgeDb: scientific lenses

• Gene– gene-protein– gene-probe

• Metabolite– Tautomers– Compound class– Charge (acid/ate)

Brenninkmeijer, CYA, et al. "Scientific Lenses over Linked Data: An approach to support task specific views of the data. A vision." Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Linked Science. 2012.

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A random metabolomics data set

CAS numbers: 1843

CAS numbers (unique): 1733

CAS numbers with mappings: 718 (41%)

CAS numbers matches: 55 (3%)

Pathways found: 66

Matches via CAS: 9

Matches via mapping: 24

Matches via ChEBI super class: 33

Matches via ChEBI charged species: 0

Matches via ChEBI tautomers: 0

CAS: 544-63-8 (myristic acid) Ce:28875 Ce:15904 (long-chain fatty acid) → → →

[WP368 Mitochondrial LC-Fatty Acid Beta-Oxidation,

WP357 Fatty Acid Biosynthesis]

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Computer Assisted Pathway Curation

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CAPC automation

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Who does it?

• http://wikipathways.org/– Maastricht Uni, Alex Pico et al. (Gladstone Institutes/SF)–… (many collaborative projects)–http://pathvisio.org/–WikiPathways-RDF → Andra Waagmeester

• http://bridgedb.org/–HMDB, ChEBI ( mapping files)→–Maastricht Uni, Carol Goble et al. (Manchester Uni)

• Anwesha Bohler–http://projects.bigcat.unimaas.nl/ReactomeConverter

• Rianne Fijten (Tox/UM)–Metabolomics data set