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An ontology-based knowledge graph for representing interactions involving RNA molecules

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  1. Univ. of Milan (Italy)
  2. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). Irving Medical Center
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  4. Berlin Institute of Health (Germany); European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), Munich (Germany)
  5. Univ. of Milan (Italy); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), Munich (Germany)
  6. Univ. of Milan (Italy); European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), Munich (Germany)
  7. Univ. of Milan (Italy); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
The "RNA world" represents a novel frontier for the study of fundamental biological processes and human diseases and is paving the way for the development of new drugs tailored to each patient's biomolecular characteristics. Although scientific data about coding and non-coding RNA molecules are constantly produced and available from public repositories, they are scattered across different databases and a centralized, uniform, and semantically consistent representation of the "RNA world" is still lacking. We propose RNA-KG, a knowledge graph (KG) encompassing biological knowledge about RNAs gathered from more than 60 public databases, integrating functional relationships with genes, proteins, and chemicals and ontologically grounded biomedical concepts. To develop RNA-KG, we first identified, pre-processed, and characterized each data source; next, we built a meta-graph that provides an ontological description of the KG by representing all the bio-molecular entities and medical concepts of interest in this domain, as well as the types of interactions connecting them. Finally, we leveraged an instance-based semantically abstracted knowledge model to specify the ontological alignment according to which RNA-KG was generated. RNA-KG can be downloaded in different formats and also queried by a SPARQL endpoint. A thorough topological analysis of the resulting heterogeneous graph provides further insights into the characteristics of the "RNA world". RNA-KG can be both directly explored and visualized, and/or analyzed by applying computational methods to infer bio-medical knowledge from its heterogeneous nodes and edges. The resource can be easily updated with new experimental data, and specific views of the overall KG can be extracted according to the bio-medical problem to be studied.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
2440393
Journal Information:
Scientific Data, Journal Name: Scientific Data Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 11; ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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