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  • Systems Biology
  • Genomics and Proteomics

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  • Pathway analysis is crucial for interpreting gene/protein expression data but current methods lack flexibility for complex designs.
  • Existing tools struggle with longitudinal studies and situations where variables of interest are not consistently defined across all samples.

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  • To introduce a novel method, Pathway Analysis of Longitudinal data (PAL), designed for complex study designs, particularly longitudinal data.
  • To overcome limitations of existing pathway analysis tools by incorporating pathway structures and accommodating undefined variables.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a new computational method, PAL, for pathway analysis.
  • Utilized pathway structures within the analytical framework.
  • Applied PAL to simulated data and three real-world longitudinal datasets.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated the performance of PAL using simulated data.
  • Successfully applied PAL to analyze transcriptomic and proteomic data from longitudinal studies on type 1 diabetes development.
  • Highlighted PAL's ability to detect subtle biological signals in complex datasets.

Conclusions:

  • PAL offers a significant advancement for pathway analysis in complex biological studies, especially longitudinal designs.
  • The method effectively leverages pathway structures and handles data complexities beyond the scope of current tools.
  • An R package for PAL is available, facilitating its adoption in the research community.