{"title":"Mining Transcriptional Data for Precision Medicine: Bioinformatics Insights into Inflammatory Bowel Disease","authors":"Arman Shahriari, Shokoofeh Amirzadeh Shams, Hamidreza Mahboobi, Maryam Yazdanparast, Amirreza Jabbaripour Sarmadian","doi":"10.2174/0115748936302814240729062857","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":": Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), encompassing ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, affects millions worldwide. Characterized by a complex interplay of genetic, microbial, and environmental factors, IBD challenges conventional treatment approaches, necessitating precision medicine. This paper reviews the role of bioinformatics in leveraging transcriptional data for novel IBD diagnostics and therapeutics. It highlights the genomic landscape of IBD, focusing on genetic factors and insights from genome-wide association studies. The interrelation between the gut microbiome and host transcriptional responses in IBD is examined, emphasizing the use of bioinformatics tools in deciphering these interactions. Our study synthesizes developments in transcriptomics and proteomics, revealing aberrant gene and protein expression patterns linked to IBD pathogenesis. We advocate for the integration of multi-omics data, underscoring the complexity and necessity of bioinformatics in interpreting these datasets. This approach paves the way for personalized treatment strategies, improved disease prognosis, and enhanced patient care. The insights provided offer a comprehensive overview of IBD, highlighting bioinformatics as key in advancing personalized healthcare in IBD management.","PeriodicalId":10801,"journal":{"name":"Current Bioinformatics","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current Bioinformatics","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2174/0115748936302814240729062857","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"BIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), encompassing ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, affects millions worldwide. Characterized by a complex interplay of genetic, microbial, and environmental factors, IBD challenges conventional treatment approaches, necessitating precision medicine. This paper reviews the role of bioinformatics in leveraging transcriptional data for novel IBD diagnostics and therapeutics. It highlights the genomic landscape of IBD, focusing on genetic factors and insights from genome-wide association studies. The interrelation between the gut microbiome and host transcriptional responses in IBD is examined, emphasizing the use of bioinformatics tools in deciphering these interactions. Our study synthesizes developments in transcriptomics and proteomics, revealing aberrant gene and protein expression patterns linked to IBD pathogenesis. We advocate for the integration of multi-omics data, underscoring the complexity and necessity of bioinformatics in interpreting these datasets. This approach paves the way for personalized treatment strategies, improved disease prognosis, and enhanced patient care. The insights provided offer a comprehensive overview of IBD, highlighting bioinformatics as key in advancing personalized healthcare in IBD management.
期刊介绍:
Current Bioinformatics aims to publish all the latest and outstanding developments in bioinformatics. Each issue contains a series of timely, in-depth/mini-reviews, research papers and guest edited thematic issues written by leaders in the field, covering a wide range of the integration of biology with computer and information science.
The journal focuses on advances in computational molecular/structural biology, encompassing areas such as computing in biomedicine and genomics, computational proteomics and systems biology, and metabolic pathway engineering. Developments in these fields have direct implications on key issues related to health care, medicine, genetic disorders, development of agricultural products, renewable energy, environmental protection, etc.