Computational strategies for cross-species knowledge transfer

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Autores principales: Yuan, Hao, Mancuso, Christopher A., Johnson, Kayla, Braasch, Ingo, Krishnan, Arjun
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Publicado: 2024
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author Yuan, Hao
Mancuso, Christopher A.
Johnson, Kayla
Braasch, Ingo
Krishnan, Arjun
author_facet Yuan, Hao
Mancuso, Christopher A.
Johnson, Kayla
Braasch, Ingo
Krishnan, Arjun
contents Research organisms provide invaluable insights into human biology and diseases, serving as essential tools for functional experiments, disease modeling, and drug testing. However, evolutionary divergence between humans and research organisms hinders effective knowledge transfer across species. Here, we review state-of-the-art methods for computationally transferring knowledge across species, primarily focusing on methods that utilize transcriptome data and/or molecular networks. Our review addresses four key areas: (1) transferring disease and gene annotation knowledge across species, (2) identifying functionally equivalent molecular components, (3) inferring equivalent perturbed genes or gene sets, and (4) identifying equivalent cell types. We conclude with an outlook on future directions and several key challenges that remain in cross-species knowledge transfer, including introducing the concept of "agnology" to describe functional equivalence of biological entities, regardless of their evolutionary origins. This concept is becoming pervasive in integrative data-driven models where evolutionary origins of functions can remain unresolved.
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spellingShingle Computational strategies for cross-species knowledge transfer
Yuan, Hao
Mancuso, Christopher A.
Johnson, Kayla
Braasch, Ingo
Krishnan, Arjun
Genomics
Molecular Networks
Research organisms provide invaluable insights into human biology and diseases, serving as essential tools for functional experiments, disease modeling, and drug testing. However, evolutionary divergence between humans and research organisms hinders effective knowledge transfer across species. Here, we review state-of-the-art methods for computationally transferring knowledge across species, primarily focusing on methods that utilize transcriptome data and/or molecular networks. Our review addresses four key areas: (1) transferring disease and gene annotation knowledge across species, (2) identifying functionally equivalent molecular components, (3) inferring equivalent perturbed genes or gene sets, and (4) identifying equivalent cell types. We conclude with an outlook on future directions and several key challenges that remain in cross-species knowledge transfer, including introducing the concept of "agnology" to describe functional equivalence of biological entities, regardless of their evolutionary origins. This concept is becoming pervasive in integrative data-driven models where evolutionary origins of functions can remain unresolved.
title Computational strategies for cross-species knowledge transfer
topic Genomics
Molecular Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08503