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Section: New Results

Data integration and pre-processing with semantic-based technologies

Participants : Meziane Aite, Marie Chevallier, Olivier Dameron, Aurélie Evrard, Clémence Frioux, Xavier Garnier, Jeanne Got, François Moreews, Yann Rivault, Anne Siegel, Pierre Vignet, Denis Tagu, Camille Trottier.

Integration and query of biological datasets with Semantic Web technologies. The purpose of this work is to obtain quick answers to biological questions demanding currently hours of manual search in several spreadsheet results files. We introduce an integration and interogation framework using an RDF model and the SPARQL query language. It allows biologists to transparently integrate and query their data without any a priori proficiency about RDF and SPARQL. [O. Dameron, A. Evrard, X. Garnier] [37], [45]

Handling the heterogeneity of genomic and metabolic networks data within flexible workflows with the PADMet toolbox A main challenge of the era of fast and massive genome sequencing is to transform sequences into biological knowledge. The high diversity of input files and tools required to run any metabolic networks reconstruction protocol represents an important drawback: it appears very difficult to ensure that input files agree among them. Such a heterogeneity produces loss of information during the use of the protocols and generates uncertainty in the final metabolic model. Here we introduce the PADMet-toolbox which allows conciliating genomic and metabolic network information. The toolbox centralizes all this information in a new graph-based format: PADMet (PortAble Database for Metabolism) and provides methods to import, update and export information. For the sake of illustration, the toolbox was used to create a workflow, named AuReMe, aiming to produce high-quality genome-scale metabolic networks and eventually input files to feed most platforms involved in metabolic network analyses. We applied this approach to two exotic organisms and our results evidenced the need of combining approaches and reconciling information to obtain a functional metabolic network to produce biomass. [M. Chevallier, M. Aite, C. Frioux, J. Got, A. Siegel, C. Trottier, P. Vignet] [34]

PEPS: a platform for supporting studies in pharmaco-epidemiology using medico-administrative databases We showed that Semantic Web technologies are technically adapted for representing patients' data from medico-administrative databases as RDF and querying them using SPARQL. We also demonstrated that this approach is relevant as it supports the combination of patients' data with hierarchical knowledge in order to address the problem of reconciling precise patients data with more general query criteria. [O. Dameron, Y. Rivault] [33], [31], [30]

Telemedicine : ontology-based reasoning and data integration We have developed a system based on a formal ontology that integrates the alert information and the patient data extracted from the electronic health record in order to better classify the importance of alerts. A pilot study was conducted on atrial fibrillation alerts. The results suggest that this approach has the potential to significantly reduce the alert burden in telecardiology. The methods may be extended to other types of connected devices. We also worked on a telemedicine application for monitoring patients with chronic diseases. We proposed an architecture supporting data exchange in the context of multiple chronic diseases [O. Dameron] [26], [25], [18]