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What does your cell really do? Model-based assessment of mammalian cells metabolic functionalities using omics data

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Abstract Large-scale omics experiments have become standard in biological studies, leading to a deluge of data. However, researchers still face the challenge of connecting changes in the omics data to changes in cell functions, due to the complex interdependencies between genes, proteins and metabolites. Here we present a novel framework that begins to overcome this problem by allowing users to infer how metabolic functions change, based on omics data. To enable this, we curated and standardized lists of metabolic tasks that mammalian cells can accomplish. We then used genome-scale metabolic networks to define gene modules responsible for each specific metabolic task. We further developed a framework to overlay omics data on these modules to predict pathway usage for each metabolic task. The proposed approach allows one to directly predict how changes in omics experiments change cell or tissue function. We further demonstrated how this new approach can be used to leverage the metabolic functions of biological entities from the single cell to their organization in tissues and organs using multiple transcriptomic datasets (human and mouse). Finally, we created a web-based CellFie module that has been integrated into the list of tools available in GenePattern (www.genepattern.org) to enable adoption of the approach.

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  • Published - 04/28/2020

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Published - 04/28/2020

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  • ORCID: /0000-0001-6514-5612/work/83913803

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