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Richard R Rodrigues1, Natalia Shulzhenko2, Andrey Morgun3
1College of Pharmacy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. rodrrich@oregonstate.edu.
Abstract:
Improvements in sequencing technologies and reduced experimental costs have resulted in a vast number of studies generating high-throughput data. Although the number of methods to analyze these "omics" data has also increased, computational complexity and lack of documentation hinder researchers from analyzing their high-throughput data to its true potential. In this chapter we detail our data-driven, transkingdom network (TransNet) analysis protocol to integrate and interrogate multi-omics data. This systems biology approach has allowed us to successfully identify important causal relationships between different taxonomic kingdoms (e.g., mammals and microbes) using diverse types of data.
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