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Application of unsupervised multi-omic factor analysis to uncover patterns of variation and molecular processes linked to cardiovascular disease.
J. Vis. Exp., DOI: 10.3791/66659:211 (2024)
Disease mechanisms are usually complex and governed by the interaction of several distinct molecular processes. Complex, multidimensional datasets are a valuable resource to generate more insights into those processes, but the analysis of such datasets can be challenging due to the high dimensionality resulting, for example, from different disease conditions, timepoints, and omics capturing the process at different resolutions. Here, we showcase an approach to analyze and explore such a complex multiomics dataset in an unsupervised way by applying multi-omics factor analysis (MOFA) to a dataset generated from blood samples that capture the immune response in acute and chronic coronary syndromes. The dataset consists of several assays at differing resolutions, including sample-level cytokine data, plasma-proteomics and neutrophil prime-seq, and single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data. Further complexity is added by having several different time points measured per patient and several patient subgroups. The analysis workflow outlines how to integrate and analyze the data in several steps: (1) Data pre-processing and harmonization, (2) Estimation of the MOFA model, (3) Downstream analysis. Step 1 outlines how to process the features of the different data types, filter out low-quality features, and normalize them to harmonize their distributions for further analysis. Step 2 shows how to apply the MOFA model and explore the major sources of variance within the dataset across all omics and features. Step 3 presents several strategies for the downstream analysis of the captured patterns, linking them to the disease conditions and potential molecular processes governing those conditions. Overall, we present a workflow for unsupervised data exploration of complex multi-omics datasets to enable the identification of major axes of variation composed of differing molecular features that can also be applied to other contexts and multi-omics datasets (including other assays as presented in the exemplary use case).
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1940-087X
e-ISSN
1940-087X
Quellenangaben
Article Number: 211
Publisher
JoVE
Publishing Place
1 Alewife Center, Ste 200, Cambridge, Ma 02140 Usa
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Institute of Computational Biology (ICB)
Grants
Helmholtz Association under the joint research school "Munich School for Data Science-MUDS"