A guide for developing comprehensive systems biology maps of disease mechanisms: planning, construction and maintenance

A Mazein, ML Acencio, I Balaur, A Rougny… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
As a conceptual model of disease mechanisms, a disease map integrates available
knowledge and is applied for data interpretation, predictions and hypothesis generation. It is …

The phosphatase PRL-3 is involved in key steps of cancer metastasis

L Duciel, LCM Gomez, M Kondratova… - Journal of molecular …, 2019 - Elsevier
PRL-3 belongs to the PRL phosphatase family. Its physiological role remains unclear, but
many studies have identified that PRL-3 is a marker of cancer progression and shown it to …

Pathway information extracted from 25 years of pathway figures

K Hanspers, A Riutta, M Summer-Kutmon, AR Pico - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Thousands of pathway diagrams are published each year as static figures inaccessible to
computational queries and analyses. Using a combination of machine learning, optical …

A multiscale signalling network map of innate immune response in cancer reveals cell heterogeneity signatures

M Kondratova, U Czerwinska, N Sompairac… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The lack of integrated resources depicting the complexity of the innate immune response in
cancer represents a bottleneck for high-throughput data interpretation. To address this …

Mechanistic computational models of microRNA-mediated signaling networks in human diseases

C Zhao, Y Zhang, AS Popel - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
MicroRNAs (miRs) are endogenous non-coding RNA molecules that play important roles in
human health and disease by regulating gene expression and cellular processes. In recent …

CyFi-MAP: an interactive pathway-based resource for cystic fibrosis

C Pereira, A Mazein, CM Farinha, MA Gray… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening autosomal recessive disease caused by more than
2100 mutations in the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, generating …

Modelling of immune checkpoint network explains synergistic effects of combined immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy and the impact of cytokines in patient response

M Kondratova, E Barillot, A Zinovyev, L Calzone - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The future of cancer immunotherapy relies on a combination of individually
targeted therapies. However, a lot of experiments are needed to define the most effective …

Using interactive platforms to encode, manage and explore immune-related adverse outcome pathways

A Mazein, M Shoaib, M Alb, C Sakellariou, C Sommer… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
We address the need for modelling and predicting adverse outcomes in immunotoxicology
to improve non-clinical assessments of immunomodulatory therapy safety and efficacy. The …

In-silico modelling of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway in colorectal cancer: mutations and targeted therapy

S Sommariva, S Berra, G Biddau, G Caviglia… - Frontiers in Systems …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Chemical reaction networks (CRNs) are powerful tools for describing the
complex nature of cancer's onset, progression, and therapy. The main reason for their …

Converting disease maps into heavyweight ontologies: general methodology and application to Alzheimer's disease

V Henry, I Moszer, O Dameron, L Vila Xicota… - Database, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Omics technologies offer great promises for improving our understanding of diseases. The
integration and interpretation of such data pose major challenges, calling for adequate …