Big Data Science with the BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center

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Big Data Science with the BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center

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About this course: The Library of Integrative Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) is an NIH Common Fund program. The idea is to perturb different types of human cells with many different types of perturbations such as: drugs and other small molecules; genetic manipulations such as knockdown or overexpression of single genes; manipulation of the extracellular microenvironment conditions, for example, growing cells on different surfaces, and more. These perturbations are applied to various types of human cells including induced pluripotent stem cells from patients, differentiated into various lineages such as neurons or cardiomyocytes. Then, to better understand the molecular networ…

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About this course: The Library of Integrative Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) is an NIH Common Fund program. The idea is to perturb different types of human cells with many different types of perturbations such as: drugs and other small molecules; genetic manipulations such as knockdown or overexpression of single genes; manipulation of the extracellular microenvironment conditions, for example, growing cells on different surfaces, and more. These perturbations are applied to various types of human cells including induced pluripotent stem cells from patients, differentiated into various lineages such as neurons or cardiomyocytes. Then, to better understand the molecular networks that are affected by these perturbations, changes in level of many different variables are measured including: mRNAs, proteins, and metabolites, as well as cellular phenotypic changes such as changes in cell morphology. The BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center (DCIC) is commissioned to organize, analyze, visualize and integrate this data with other publicly available relevant resources. In this course we briefly introduce the DCIC and the various Centers that collect data for LINCS. We then cover metadata and how metadata is linked to ontologies. We then present data processing and normalization methods to clean and harmonize LINCS data. This follow discussions about how data is served as RESTful APIs. Most importantly, the course covers computational methods including: data clustering, gene-set enrichment analysis, interactive data visualization, and supervised learning. Finally, we introduce crowdsourcing/citizen-science projects where students can work together in teams to extract expression signatures from public databases and then query such collections of signatures against LINCS data for predicting small molecules as potential therapeutics.

Who is this class for: Learn various methods of analysis including: unsupervised clustering, gene-set enrichment analysis, interactive data visualization, and supervised machine learning with application to data from the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signature (LINCS) program, and other relevant Big Data from high content molecular omics data and phenotype profiling of mammalian cells.

Created by:  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Taught by:  Avi Ma’ayan, PhD, Director, Mount Sinai Center for Bioinformatics

    Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
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Syllabus


WEEK 1


The Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) Program Overview
This module provides an overview of the concept behind the LINCS program; and tutorials on how to get started with using the LINCS L1000 dataset.


8 videos, 2 readings expand


  1. Reading: Syllabus
  2. Reading: Grading and Logistics
  3. Video: Layers of Cellular Regulation and Omics Technologies
  4. Video: The Connectivity Map
  5. Video: Geometrical View of the Connectivity Map Concept
  6. Video: LINCS Data and Signature Generation Centers
  7. Video: BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center
  8. Video: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)
  9. Video: Introduction to LINCS L1000 Data
  10. Discussion Prompt: LINCS L1000 Data - Practice Exercise
  11. Video: L1000 Characteristic Direction Signature Search Engine (L1000CDS2) Demo


Metadata and Ontologies
This module includes a broad high level description of the concepts behind metadata and ontologies and how these are applied to LINCS datasets.


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  1. Video: Introduction to Metadata and Ontologies | Part 1
  2. Video: Introduction to Metadata and Ontologies | Part 2


Serving Data with APIs
In this module we explain the concept of accessing data through an application programming interface (API).


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  1. Video: Accessing and Serving Data through RESTful APIs | Part 1
  2. Video: Accessing and Serving Data through RESTful APIs | Part 2
  3. Discussion Prompt: Accessing Data through the Harmonizome's RESTful API - Practice Exercise


WEEK 2


Bioinformatics Pipelines
This module describes the important concept of a Bioinformatics pipeline.


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  1. Video: Analyzing Big Data with Computational Pipelines
  2. Discussion Prompt: Bioinformatics Pipeline - Practice Exercise


The Harmonizome
This module describes a project that integrates many resources that contain knowledge about genes and proteins. The project is called the Harmonizome, and it is implemented as a web-server application available at: http://amp.pharm.mssm.edu/Harmonizome/


4 videos expand


  1. Video: The Harmonizome Concept
  2. Video: Processing Datasets | Part 1
  3. Video: Processing Datasets | Part 2
  4. Video: Processing Datasets | Part 3
  5. Discussion Prompt: Harmonizome - Practice Exercise


WEEK 3


Data Normalization
This module describes the mathematical concepts behind data normalization.


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  1. Video: Data Normalization | Part 1
  2. Video: Data Normalization | Part 2
  3. Discussion Prompt: Data Normalization - Practice Exercise


Data Clustering
This module describes the mathematical concepts behind data clustering, or in other words unsupervised learning - the identification of patterns within data without considering the labels associated with the data.


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  1. Video: Data Clustering | Part 1 | Introduction
  2. Video: Data Clustering | Part 2 | Distance Functions
  3. Video: Data Clustering | Part 3 | Algorithms and Evaluation
  4. Discussion Prompt: Data Clustering - Practice Exercise


Midterm Exam
The Midterm Exam consists of 45 multiple choice questions which covers modules 1-7. Some of the questions may require you to perform some analysis with the methods you learned throughout the course on new datasets.




    Graded: Midterm Exam

    WEEK 4


    Enrichment Analysis
    This module introduces the important concept of performing gene set enrichment analyses. Enrichment analysis is the process of querying gene sets from genomics and proteomics studies against annotated gene sets collected from prior biological knowledge.


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    1. Video: Enrichment Analysis | Part 1
    2. Video: Enrichment Analysis | Part 2
    3. Video: Enrichr Demo


    Machine Learning
    This module describes the mathematical concepts of supervised machine learning, the process of making predictions from examples that associate observations/features/attribute with one or more properties that we wish to learn/predict.


    3 videos expand


    1. Video: Introduction to Machine Learning | Part 1
    2. Video: Introduction to Machine Learning | Part 2
    3. Video: Introduction to Machine Learning | Part 3
    4. Discussion Prompt: Machine Learning - Practice Exercise


    WEEK 5


    Benchmarking
    This module discusses how Bioinformatics pipelines can be compared and evaluated.


    2 videos expand


    1. Video: Benchmarking | Part 1
    2. Video: Benchmarking | Part 2
    3. Discussion Prompt: Benchmarking - Practice Exercise


    Interactive Data Visualization
    This module provides programming examples on how to get started with creating interactive web-based data visualization elements/figures.


    4 videos expand


    1. Video: Interactive Data Visualization with E-Charts
    2. Video: Visualizing Data using Interactive Clustergrams Built with D3.js | Part 1
    3. Video: Visualizing Data using Interactive Clustergrams Built with D3.js | Part 2
    4. Video: Visualizing Data using Interactive Clustergrams Built with D3.js | Part 3
    5. Discussion Prompt: Visualizing Gene Expression Data using Interactive Clustergrams Built with D3.js - Practice Exercise


    WEEK 6


    Crowdsourcing Projects
    This final module describes opportunities to work on LINCS related projects that go beyond the course.


    2 videos, 1 reading expand


    1. Video: Microtasks and GEO2Enrichr Demo
    2. Video: L1000-2-P100 Megatask Challenge
    3. Reading: BD2K-LINCS DCIC Crowdsourcing Portal


    WEEK 7


    Final Exam
    The Final Exam consists of 60 multiple choice questions which covers all of the modules of the course. Some of the questions may require you to perform some analysis with the methods you learned throughout the course on new datasets.




      Graded: Final Exam
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