Michael Maher , Amy M. Pooler , James Kaput, Martin Kussmann
{"title":"A systems approach to personalised nutrition: Report on the Keystone Symposium “Human Nutrition, Environment and Health”","authors":"Michael Maher , Amy M. Pooler , James Kaput, Martin Kussmann","doi":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.08.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atg.2016.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90104,"journal":{"name":"Applied & translational genomics","volume":"10 ","pages":"Pages 16-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.atg.2016.08.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91681561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaeyun Sung , Vanessa Hale , Annette C. Merkel , Pan-Jun Kim , Nicholas Chia
{"title":"Metabolic modeling with Big Data and the gut microbiome","authors":"Jaeyun Sung , Vanessa Hale , Annette C. Merkel , Pan-Jun Kim , Nicholas Chia","doi":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.02.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atg.2016.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The recent advances in high-throughput omics technologies have enabled researchers to explore the intricacies of the human microbiome. On the clinical front, the gut microbial community has been the focus of many biomarker-discovery studies. While the recent deluge of high-throughput data in microbiome research has been vastly informative and groundbreaking, we have yet to capture the full potential of omics-based approaches. Realizing the promise of multi-omics data will require integration of disparate omics data, as well as a biologically relevant, mechanistic framework – or metabolic model – on which to overlay these data. Also, a new paradigm for metabolic model evaluation is necessary. Herein, we outline the need for multi-omics data integration, as well as the accompanying challenges. Furthermore, we present a framework for characterizing the ecology of the gut microbiome based on metabolic network modeling.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":90104,"journal":{"name":"Applied & translational genomics","volume":"10 ","pages":"Pages 10-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.atg.2016.02.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90028858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christoph Endrullat, Jörn Glökler, Philipp Franke, Marcus Frohme
{"title":"Standardization and quality management in next-generation sequencing","authors":"Christoph Endrullat, Jörn Glökler, Philipp Franke, Marcus Frohme","doi":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atg.2016.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>DNA sequencing continues to evolve quickly even after ><!--> <!-->30<!--> <!-->years. Many new platforms suddenly appeared and former established systems have vanished in almost the same manner. Since establishment of next-generation sequencing devices, this progress gains momentum due to the continually growing demand for higher throughput, lower costs and better quality of data. In consequence of this rapid development, standardized procedures and data formats as well as comprehensive quality management considerations are still scarce. Here, we listed and summarized current standardization efforts and quality management initiatives from companies, organizations and societies in form of published studies and ongoing projects. These comprise on the one hand quality documentation issues like technical notes, accreditation checklists and guidelines for validation of sequencing workflows. On the other hand, general standard proposals and quality metrics are developed and applied to the sequencing workflow steps with the main focus on upstream processes. Finally, certain standard developments for downstream pipeline data handling, processing and storage are discussed in brief. These standardization approaches represent a first basis for continuing work in order to prospectively implement next-generation sequencing in important areas such as clinical diagnostics, where reliable results and fast processing is crucial. Additionally, these efforts will exert a decisive influence on traceability and reproducibility of sequence data.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":90104,"journal":{"name":"Applied & translational genomics","volume":"10 ","pages":"Pages 2-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.atg.2016.06.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91726544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A systems approach to personalised nutrition: Report on the Keystone Symposium “Human Nutrition, Environment and Health”","authors":"M. Maher, A. Pooler, J. Kaput, M. Kussmann","doi":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.08.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atg.2016.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90104,"journal":{"name":"Applied & translational genomics","volume":"109 1","pages":"16 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80529474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Endrullat, J. Glökler, Philipp Franke, M. Frohme
{"title":"Standardization and quality management in next-generation sequencing","authors":"C. Endrullat, J. Glökler, Philipp Franke, M. Frohme","doi":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atg.2016.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90104,"journal":{"name":"Applied & translational genomics","volume":"11 1","pages":"2 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82452731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tau protein as a biomarker for asphyxia: A possible forensic tool?","authors":"Mohamed Salama , Wael M.Y. Mohamed","doi":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Asphyxial death has been a problem for forensic investigations due to the absence of a validated biomarker for the diagnosis of this event. Recently, research on brain affection by asphyxia raised hopes on the possible use of CNS markers for asphyxia. The cytoskeletal proteins seem to be attractive targets as they are vulnerable to hypoxia and can be affected in asphyxial deaths<em>. Tau</em>, an important cytoskeletal protein, showed affection in many neurodegenerative disorders and recently in some acute incidences like trauma and brain ischemia. In this report we show the affection of the normal pattern of tau and pathological aggregates of tau in the case of brain hypoxia. This may give new clues to asphyxial death investigations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":90104,"journal":{"name":"Applied & translational genomics","volume":"9 ","pages":"Pages 20-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.atg.2016.03.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34619081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translating translational medicine into global health equity: What is needed?","authors":"Carol Isaacson Barash","doi":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While genomics, and other omics, research is rapidly advancing in the US and Europe, progress has been slower in less resourced countries. The imbalance has given rise to concern about whether the benefits of these advances, namely new and better tests, treatments, risk identification, and prevention strategies, will be shared and available to those living in less resourced reaches of the globe. In effort to give voice to researchers, an informal survey about barriers to advancing translational medicine was administered to attendees of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Human Genetics, 2015, Hanoi. The overall goal of the survey was to identify unmet needs and rank their importance. Most attendees completed the survey. Not surprisingly funding is indicated as a major need. Respondents reported that lack of bioinformatics and computational tools, trained data scientists and access to datasets is creating a significant lag behind better resourced regions. Results are intended to inform efforts to create a regional consensus statement of need. Such a regional statement could help funding organizations and policy makers seeking to promote global genomics benefit sharing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":90104,"journal":{"name":"Applied & translational genomics","volume":"9 ","pages":"Pages 37-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.atg.2016.03.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34620341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mamoonah Chaudhry, Marco Alessandrini, Michael S. Pepper
{"title":"Pharmacogenomics for infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: Successes and opportunities","authors":"Mamoonah Chaudhry, Marco Alessandrini, Michael S. Pepper","doi":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90104,"journal":{"name":"Applied & translational genomics","volume":"9 ","pages":"Pages 3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.atg.2016.04.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34619078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Limited resources of genome sequencing in developing countries: Challenges and solutions","authors":"Mohamed Helmy , Mohamed Awad , Kareem A. Mosa","doi":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.atg.2016.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The differences between countries in national income, growth, human development and many other factors are used to classify countries into developed and developing countries. There are several classification systems that use different sets of measures and criteria. The most common classifications are the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank (WB) systems. The UN classification system uses the UN Human Development Index (HDI), an indicator that uses statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita for countries' classification. While the WB system uses gross national income (GNI) per capita that is calculated using the World Bank Atlas method. According to the UN and WB classification systems, there are 151 and 134 developing countries, respectively, with 89% overlap between the two systems. Developing countries have limited human development, and limited expenditure in education and research, among several other limitations. The biggest challenge facing genomic researchers and clinicians is limited resources. As a result, genomic tools, specifically genome sequencing technologies, which are rapidly becoming indispensable, are not widely available. In this report, we explore the current status of sequencing technologies in developing countries, describe the associated challenges and emphasize potential solutions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":90104,"journal":{"name":"Applied & translational genomics","volume":"9 ","pages":"Pages 15-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.atg.2016.03.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34619080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}