BioDataome: a collection of uniformly preprocessed and automatically annotated datasets for data-driven biology

Database (Oxford). 2018 Jan 1:2018:bay011. doi: 10.1093/database/bay011.

Abstract

Biotechnology revolution generates a plethora of omics data with an exponential growth pace. Therefore, biological data mining demands automatic, 'high quality' curation efforts to organize biomedical knowledge into online databases. BioDataome is a database of uniformly preprocessed and disease-annotated omics data with the aim to promote and accelerate the reuse of public data. We followed the same preprocessing pipeline for each biological mart (microarray gene expression, RNA-Seq gene expression and DNA methylation) to produce ready for downstream analysis datasets and automatically annotated them with disease-ontology terms. We also designate datasets that share common samples and automatically discover control samples in case-control studies. Currently, BioDataome includes ∼5600 datasets, ∼260 000 samples spanning ∼500 diseases and can be easily used in large-scale massive experiments and meta-analysis. All datasets are publicly available for querying and downloading via BioDataome web application. We demonstrate BioDataome's utility by presenting exploratory data analysis examples. We have also developed BioDataome R package found in: https://github.com/mensxmachina/BioDataome/.Database URL: http://dataome.mensxmachina.org/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Data Curation / methods*
  • Databases, Genetic*
  • Electronic Data Processing / methods*
  • Gene Expression Profiling*
  • Gene Expression Regulation*
  • Meta-Analysis as Topic
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis*