A comprehensive platform for analyzing longitudinal multi-omics data
Nature Communications, 2023
Vasaikar S., Savage A., Gong Q., Swanson E., Talla A., Lord C., Heubeck A., Reading J., Graybuck L., Meijer P., Torgerson T., Skene P., Bumol T., Li X.
| Disease area | Application area | Sample type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
Wider Bioinformatics Studies | Data Science | Plasma |  Olink Target 96 |
Abstract
Longitudinal bulk and single-cell omics data is increasingly generated for biological and clinical research but is challenging to analyze due to its many intrinsic types of variations. We present PALMO (https://github.com/aifimmunology/PALMO), a platform that contains five analytical modules to examine longitudinal bulk and single-cell multi-omics data from multiple perspectives, including decomposition of sources of variations within the data, collection of stable or variable features across timepoints and participants, identification of up- or down-regulated markers across timepoints of individual participants, and investigation on samples of same participants for possible outlier events. We have tested PALMO performance on a complex longitudinal multi-omics dataset of five data modalities on the same samples and six external datasets of diverse background. Both PALMO and our longitudinal multi-omics dataset can be valuable resources to the scientific community.