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Full Integration of Lipidomics Data into Multi-OMIC Functional Enrichment

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1986189· OSTI ID:1986189
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  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Lipids have numerous roles critical to living systems. Many of these vital functions are tightly linked or regulated by proteins. Even though the function of many lipid-related enzymes is known, direct links between most individual lipid species and the enzymes that metabolize them are severely lacking. This missing connection impedes biological progress. A resource that allows users to quickly identify protein-lipid relationships will advance our understanding of lipid homeostasis and metabolic perturbed systems. Databases are readily available for mapping small molecule metabolites (i.e., polar metabolites) and specific oxidized fatty acid lipids (e.g., arachidonic acid derivatives) to proteins/enzymes known to be directly involved in metabolism of these molecules (e.g. SMPDB, Reactome, HMDB, BioCyc). This enables the integration of metabolite and protein (as well as transcript) data when performing functional enrichment and metabolic modeling allowing researchers to rapidly examine metabolic pathways from multiple omics sources. Currently, linking lipidomics data with proteomics data is conducted using a time-intensive, user defined, manual process. Here we propose creating a tool that will link lipidomics and proteomics data and also conduct functional enrichment analysis and visualization allowing for full statistical integration. Using text-mining approaches, we will extract lipid references from uniprot and create a database linking lipid species to enzymes directly related to their metabolism. We will also extract directional annotation, which will allow even greater specificity when linking data types and will help eliminate false positives from functional associations.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1986189
Report Number(s):
PNNL--29388
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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