Taking bioinformatics to systems medicine

AHC van Kampen, PD Moerland - Systems medicine, 2016 - Springer
Systems medicine, 2016Springer
Abstract Systems medicine promotes a range of approaches and strategies to study human
health and disease at a systems level with the aim of improving the overall well-being of
(healthy) individuals, and preventing, diagnosing, or curing disease. In this chapter we
discuss how bioinformatics critically contributes to systems medicine. First, we explain the
role of bioinformatics in the management and analysis of data. In particular we show the
importance of publicly available biological and clinical repositories to support systems …
Abstract
Systems medicine promotes a range of approaches and strategies to study human health and disease at a systems level with the aim of improving the overall well-being of (healthy) individuals, and preventing, diagnosing, or curing disease. In this chapter we discuss how bioinformatics critically contributes to systems medicine. First, we explain the role of bioinformatics in the management and analysis of data. In particular we show the importance of publicly available biological and clinical repositories to support systems medicine studies. Second, we discuss how the integration and analysis of multiple types of omics data through integrative bioinformatics may facilitate the determination of more predictive and robust disease signatures, lead to a better understanding of (patho)physiological molecular mechanisms, and facilitate personalized medicine. Third, we focus on network analysis and discuss how gene networks can be constructed from omics data and how these networks can be decomposed into smaller modules. We discuss how the resulting modules can be used to generate experimentally testable hypotheses, provide insight into disease mechanisms, and lead to predictive models. Throughout, we provide several examples demonstrating how bioinformatics contributes to systems medicine and discuss future challenges in bioinformatics that need to be addressed to enable the advancement of systems medicine.
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