Publication: Uniformly shaped harmonization combines human transcriptomic data from different platforms while retaining their biological properties and differential gene expression patterns
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2023-01-01
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Introduction: Co-normalization of RNA profiles obtained using different experimental platforms and protocols opens avenue for comprehensive comparison of relevant features like differentially expressed genes associated with disease. Currently, most of bioinformatic tools enable normalization in a flexible format that depends on the individual datasets under analysis. Thus, the output data of such normalizations will be poorly compatible with each other. Recently we proposed a new approach to gene expression data normalization termed Shambhala which returns harmonized data in a uniform shape, where every expression profile is transformed into a pre-defined universal format. We previously showed that following shambhalization of human RNA profiles, overall tissue-specific clustering features are strongly retained while platform-specific clustering is dramatically reduced. Methods: Here, we tested Shambhala performance in retention of fold-change gene expression features and other functional characteristics of gene clusters such as pathway activation levels and predicted cancer drug activity scores. Results: Using 6,793 cancer and 11,135 normal tissue gene expression profiles from the literature and experimental datasets, we applied twelve performance criteria for different versions of Shambhala and other methods of transcriptomic harmonization with flexible output data format. Such criteria dealt with the biological type classifiers, hierarchical clustering, correlation/regression properties, stability of drug efficiency scores, and data quality for using machine learning classifiers. Discussion: Shambhala-2 harmonizer demonstrated the best results with the close to 1 correlation and linear regression coefficients for the comparison of training vs validation datasets and more than two times lesser instability for calculation of drug efficiency scores compared to other methods.
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Yaşam Bilimleri, Moleküler Biyoloji ve Genetik, Sitogenetik, Temel Bilimler, Life Sciences, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cytogenetic, Natural Sciences, Yaşam Bilimleri (LIFE), BİYOKİMYA VE MOLEKÜLER BİYOLOJİ, Life Sciences (LIFE), MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS, BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, Biyokimya, Moleküler Biyoloji, Biyokimya, Genetik ve Moleküler Biyoloji (çeşitli), Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous), cancer transcriptomics, correlation analysis, data normalization and harmonization, gene expression, microarray hybridization, platform bias, RNA sequencing, transcriptional profiles, gene expression, transcriptional profiles, RNA sequencing, microarray hybridization, data normalization and harmonization, platform bias, cancer transcriptomics, correlation analysis
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Borisov N., Tkachev V., Simonov A., Sorokin M., Kim E., Kuzmin D., Karademir-Yilmaz B., Buzdin A., "Uniformly shaped harmonization combines human transcriptomic data from different platforms while retaining their biological properties and differential gene expression patterns", Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, cilt.10, 2023