systems biology approaches to cancer
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Systems Biology Approaches to Cancer
Raunak Shrestha
14 May 2013
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BACKGROUND
System Biology & Biological Networks
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What is systems biology?
• Systems biology is the study of an organism, viewed as an integrated and interacting network of genes, proteins and biochemical reactions which give rise to life.
• Networks organize and integrate information at different levels to create biologically meaningful models.
• Networks formulate hypotheses about biological function and provide temporal and spatial insights into dynamical changes.
Oltvai and Barabási, Science. 2002Hood and Tian, Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, 20123
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How is a network constructed ?
Wang and Marcotte, J Proteomics. 20104
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Yeast: Transcription Factor-Binding Network Yeast: Protein–Protein Interaction Network
Yeast: Phosphorylation Network Yeast: Genetic NetworkE. coli Metabolic Network
Zhu et al. Genes Dev. 20075
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Moral of the Story (from previous slide)
• Biological networks should not be used blindly
• Even a single organism can have multiple types of networks
• The meaning or the edges in the network (relationships) must be kept in mind while analyzing the data
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Characteristics of a Biological Network
Elgoyhen et al., Front. Syst. Neurosci. 20127
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Barabási and Oltvai, Nature Reviews Genetics, 20048
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Summary of Prior Knowledge Sources
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Gene-sets Pathways Networks
Pros
• Many possible gene sets (e.g. diseases, biological processes, molecular functions)
• Highly curated
• Captures cause and effect relationship
• Highly curated
• Higher coverage of genome
• Represent less well-understood relationships
- Genetic interactions- Physical interaction- Coexpression- Pathway cross-talk
Cons
• Highly overlapping gene sets
• Sparse coverage of genome
• Different definitions of pathways/overlapping pathways
• Captures only the “well-understood” biological processes
• Sparse coverage of genome
• Less reliable• False-relationships from
high-throughput experiments and computational predictions
Kendric Wang
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DATA INTEGRATION
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Why data integration is required in for cancer studies ?
Ding et al. Hum. Mol. Genet. 2010
Studying cancer dataset in isolation will produce an incomplete story
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How networks plays a vital role in data integration ?
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Different Data Types
Interaction Network
Model Outcome
Weischenfeldt et al. Cell. 2013
Data Labeling/Overlaying Vs Data Integration
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Different Data Types
Interaction Network
Model Sub-Networks that differentiate between the sample class that is being compared
Strategies of Data Integration: Few Examples
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Class 1 Class 2
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Cause Effect
Somatic MutationsStructural Variations
Copy Number Aberrations
Prioritize Candidate Driver Genes of Cancer
Gene FusionsAlternative SplicingDNA Methylation
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Interaction Network
Gene ExpressionmiRNA Expression
Model
Strategies of Data Integration: Few Examples
Hypothesis:Thus a perturbation in one gene can be propagated through the interactions, and affect other genes in the network.
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APPLICATIONS
What can we do with these molecular networks?
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Gene Marker Sets
• Examine genome-wide expression profiles
– Score individual genes for how well they discriminate between different classes of disease• Establish gene expression signature
– Problem: # genes >> # patients
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Pathway Expression vs. PPI Subnetwork as Marker
• Score known pathways for coherence of gene expression changes?– Majority of human genes not
yet assigned to a definitive pathway
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• Large Protein-Protein Interaction networks recently became available– Extract subnetworks from PPI
networks as markers
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Chuang et al. Mol Syst Biol. 2007
• Subnetwork markers correspond to the hallmarks of cancer
• Subnetwork markers have increased reproducibility across data sets
• Subnetwork markers increase the classification accuracy of metastasis
• Subnetwork markers are informative of non-discriminative disease genes
Cho et al. PLoS Comput Biol. 201219
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Hubs tend to be essential
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Hubs tend to be essential
Massagué, Cell. 2008
Degree = How well a node is connected in a network21
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System Biology
in Cancer
Disease Classification
Identify Driver Genes
DysregulatedGene
modules / Pathway
Personalized Medicine
Decipher disease
biological mechanisms
Biomarker development
Drug Target Identification
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Conclusion
• Present knowledge of the cellular map (interaction network) :: tip of an iceberg
• Still with the incomplete map system biology has been able to produce a lot of success stories.
• System biology techniques & methods will even be more efficient, robust and more reliable in the future.
• Maps will be just as important to biological discoveries as they were to the discoveries in the era of Columbus
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Old World.” –Christopher ColumbusFriend and Norman, Nat. Biotech. April 2013
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