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Genomic profiling as an option for ovarian cancer diagnostics.

INTRODUCTION: Ovarian cancer (OC) is a highly heterogeneous and lethal gynecological malignancy. Precision oncology has shifted the management paradigm to comprehensive molecular profiling. Genomic-based diagnostics are now a clinical necessity for accurate prognostic stratification and the rational selection of targeted therapeutics, such as PARP and immune checkpoint inhibitors. AREAS COVERED: This review evaluates current literature regarding the distinct genomic landscapes defining OC histotypes to underlined the role of molecular profiling in the diagnostic field of OC. We discuss the practical implementation, technical aspect, and clinical validity of the main molecular diagnostic platforms, focusing on tissue-based Comprehensive Genomic Profiling (CGP) and Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD). Furthermore, we explore emerging translational data on liquid biopsy (LBx) applications. EXPERT OPINION: While current tissue-based methodologies provide critical baseline data, the OC diagnostic paradigm must pivot from static testing to proactive and longitudinal tracking. Integrating advanced LBx approaches enables a real-time monitoring of dynamic parameters as minimal residual disease (MRD) and acquired resistance. Integrating these dynamic blood-based assays with multi-omic profiling and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tools allows a full understanding of the complex tumor behavior.

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Bridging genotype, phenotype, and clinical insight: the role of multi-omics in cardiovascular disease.

INTRODUCTION: It is increasingly evident that the multifactorial nature of cardiovascular disease requires the combination of different omics approaches for improving our mechanistic understanding, identifying novel drug targets, and developing accurate diagnostic, predictive, and prognostic biomarker panels. AREAS COVERED: We review the current state and the potential of multi-omics in cardiovascular disease, with a specific focus on plasma-, spatial-, and single-cell approaches. We discuss lipidomics as a genotype‑to‑phenotype bridge, the utility of remote longitudinal monitoring via microsampling/dried blood spots, and emerging clinical‑trial integrations of multi-omics approaches. We outline critical gaps in standardization and how to overcome these, pre‑analytical challenges and constraints that are often neglected, and data‑integration methods spanning from canonical correlation analysis to modern machine learning approaches. EXPERT OPINION: Multi‑omics can shape cardiovascular care by identifying drug targets in diseased tissue and by yielding small, usable biomarker panels.

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Toward large-scale mass spectrometry-based omics for clinical applications.

INTRODUCTION: As healthcare advances toward personalized medicine, mass spectrometry-based research is advancing our understanding of cellular biology and disease states, and translating these findings into clinical applications. This review highlights recent advances in methodology and technology that demonstrate the capabilities of mass spectrometry-based proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics in clinical practice. AREAS COVERED: The ability to directly analyze functional molecules with mass spectrometry uncovers crucial clinical information. Each data modality (proteins, lipids, and metabolites) provides essential insight into healthy and disease states. As technology advances, integrating data from different modalities unlocks new possibilities for clinical research. To gain the most from this multi-omic data, unsupervised integration methods can provide detailed insights into complex biological processes. As the field applies this knowledge, healthcare could experience significant leaps in the near future. This review examines recent advancements in mass spectrometry-based proteomics, lipidomics, and metabolomics, focusing on how improvements in sample preparation, automation, and multi-omics data integration are making large-scale clinical studies more accessible. EXPERT OPINION: Recent technical and methodological advancements in mass spectrometry analysis have propelled healthcare toward a tipping point, shifting from traditional RNA- and DNA-based research to downstream analysis of protein, lipid, and metabolite effectors.

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Proteomics-based approaches to neutrophil biology.

INTRODUCTION: Neutrophils are central effectors of innate immunity and key contributors to inflammation, host defense, and tissue injury across a wide range of physiological and pathological contexts. Due to their short lifespan, rapid activation, and extensive post-translational regulation, comprehensive molecular characterization of neutrophil function requires approaches that go beyond transcriptomics or marker-based analyses. AREAS COVERED: This review summarizes how proteomic technologies have advanced the understanding of neutrophil biology by enabling unbiased, system-wide profiling of protein abundance, subcellular organization, post-translational modifications, and functional heterogeneity. We discuss global and subcellular proteomics, PTM-centric analyses, and emerging low-input and single-cell proteomic strategies, highlighting recent studies of infection, cancer, metabolic disorders, aging, autoimmune disease, and inflammation. The literature covered includes current large-scale quantitative proteomics, targeted PTMs, and integrative multi-omics studies in both human samples and relevant experimental models. EXPERT OPINION: Proteomics has established neutrophils as highly plastic and context-dependent cells whose functions are governed by coordinated remodeling of signaling, metabolism, and effector pathways. Future progress will depend on expanding neutrophil-specific PTM maps, improving low-input workflows, and integrating single-cell and spatial proteomics. Together, these advances are expected to redefine neutrophil functional states and accelerate translation toward clinically meaningful biomarkers and therapeutic strategies.

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BIOCARD framework: integrating fecal bile acids, lipids, and metabolites to assess response to a cardiovascular health intervention.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in under-resourced populations. Although nutritional interventions are important for CVD prevention, their outcomes are commonly evaluated using conventional clinical and behavioral indicators, which may not fully capture early molecular responses. In this study, we developed the BIOCARD framework, an exploratory fecal multi-omics platform integrating bile acids, lipids, and metabolites to evaluate intervention outcomes related to cardiovascular health. Fecal samples were collected from caregiver-child participants enrolled in a 10-week randomized controlled trial comparing a multicomponent garden-based intervention (SHA) with an education-only control group (MSP). Fecal polar metabolites, lipids, and bile acids were analyzed by UHPLC-HRMS-based approaches and integrated with conventional health indicators. Traditional clinical indicators in the present study showed limited sensitivity for detecting intervention-related differences. In contrast, fecal multi-omics analyzes revealed intervention-associated differences in metabolites, lipids, and bile acids, with children showing more apparent molecular variation than parents. Network analysis further revealed associations between selected molecular features and cardiovascular-related indicators, including blood pressure, body fat, skin carotenoids, and Healthy Eating Index scores. Together, these findings suggest that the BIOCARD framework may serve as an exploratory molecular approach to complement traditional outcome measures and improve the evaluation of nutritional interventions for cardiovascular health.

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Integrated metagenomic and metabolomic analysis identifies severity-specific inflammatory and metabolic signatures in post-stroke depression.

Post-stroke depression (PSD) is a common complication that significantly impacts patient prognosis. This study aimed to systematically characterize the associations among gut microbial ecology, metabolic profiles, and inflammatory responses across different severities of PSD. We conducted metagenomic sequencing, non-targeted metabolomics, and serum cytokine analysis (IL-1β, IL-6, IL-10, IL-18, TNF-α, IFN-γ, and CRP) in 91 patients with varying degrees of PSD and non-PSD controls. Bioinformatics analyzes were employed to construct multi-omics association networks and machine learning models. Results indicated that PSD patients exhibited significantly increased gut microbiota alpha-diversity, suggesting dysbiosis. Mild depression was characterized by compensatory neural signaling activation, whereas the moderate depression group exhibited abnormalities in tryptophan/indole metabolism, oxidative stress-related metabolic imbalances, and functional decompensation. Further analyzes suggested that Alistipes, Blautia_A, Evtepia gabavorous, and Lachnospira were associated with inflammatory features, GABA-related metabolic alterations, aromatic amino acid/indole metabolism, and lipid-amino acid metabolism, respectively. Under a more rigorous 10-fold cross-validation framework, the performance of different multi-omics combination models showed heterogeneity; however, some combinations still demonstrated superior discriminatory ability compared to single-omics approaches. This study provides multi-omics clues suggesting associations between different PSD severity levels and features such as increased Alistipes abundance, reduced antioxidant capacity, and altered tryptophan metabolism. It provides candidate biomarker combinations that may be useful for PSD stratification and suggests that the gut microbiome may represent a potential target for future PSD intervention. In summary, PSD may be associated with dynamic alterations along the "gut-brain-inflammation-metabolism" axis. These findings provide integrated evidence for microbial, metabolic, and inflammatory abnormalities across different PSD severity levels, but still require validation in larger samples, longitudinal cohorts, and mechanistic studies.

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In vivo porcine multi-omics integration identifies microbiome-driven histamine elevation and lasting gut perturbations following Ascaris suum infection and fenbendazole treatment.

Ascaris roundworms impair human and swine health. While treatments using anthelmintic drugs are generally effective in eliminating worms, their effects on the gut microenvironment remain poorly understood. Here we applied integrated multi-omics to characterize infection- and treatment-associated alterations in the pig-Ascaris system. In vitro anaerobic cultures were conducted as supportive validation of selected observations. Ascaris suum infection altered microbial composition and dysregulated 182 serum and fecal metabolites, including histamine and p-cresol sulfate. Compared with time-matched uninfected controls, infected pigs treated with fenbendazole showed marked differences in gut microbial composition 13&#x2009;days after confirmed worm clearance. Eleven microbial pathways were enriched in successfully treated pigs, including peptidoglycan biosynthesis and histidine metabolism, indicating that infection-associated alterations may persist after treatment. In vitro co-exposure of Lactobacillus reuteri to fenbendazole and A. suum proteins increased histamine production by approximately 79% at 48&#x2009;h (p&#x2009;<&#x2009;0.05), serving as supportive evidence of a microbiome contribution. Collectively, our in vivo findings support that host-microbiota-parasite interactions are multifaceted. Microbiota-derived metabolites were associated with regulation of host gene expression, such as TFF2 and IL8. Microbiota plasticity allows the exploitation of the niche differentiated upon infection, resulting in the proliferation of certain Lactobacillus strains in treated animals. Nevertheless, interpretations of treatment effects are made cautiously given the absence of an uninfected drug-only group and the cross-sectional design. Understanding these complex interactions will be important for the design of next-generation functional anthelmintics.

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soFusion: facilitating tissue structure identification via spatial multi-omics data fusion.

The rapid advancement of spatial multi-omics technologies has opened new avenues for dissecting tissue architecture with unprecedented resolution. However, inherent disparities across omics modalities, such as differences in biological hierarchy and resolution, pose significant challenges for integrative analysis. To address this, we present soFusion, a method for representation learning on spatial multi-omics data that enables automated identification of tissue compartmentalization. soFusion employs a graph convolutional network (GCN) to extract latent embeddings from spatial omics profiles. To simultaneously capture both cross-modality relationships and modality-specific features, we introduce a novel strategy for intra- and inter-omics feature learning. Moreover, modality-specific decoders are designed to preserve the unique information embedded in each omics type. We evaluated soFusion on multiple datasets including gene expression, protein expression, and epigenetic features. Across all benchmarks, soFusion consistently outperformed existing methods in delineating anatomical structures and identifying spatial domains with improved continuity and reduced noise. Collectively, soFusion offers an effective solution for spatial multi-omics integration, substantially enhancing the robustness of spatial domain identification.

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DPAS-Graph: adaptive spatial-feature relation learning for spatial RNA-to-protein prediction and virtual protein profiling.

Paired spatial multi-omics provides a supervised basis for learning RNA-protein correspondence in situ, but predicting protein abundance from spatial transcriptomic data alone remains challenging across tissue contexts and protein panels. Here, we present DPAS-Graph, an adaptive relation-learning framework for spatial RNA-to-protein prediction. Rather than directly merging spatial proximity and transcriptomic similarity as fixed graph priors, DPAS-Graph represents them as two relation channels on a shared edge support and updates their contributions during representation learning for protein prediction. Its Niche-Coupled Field Encoder combines layer-wise edge-relation modeling, intra-branch relation refinement, and cross-branch residual correction to learn spot representations for protein abundance prediction. In a leave-one-dataset-out benchmark across seven paired spatial multi-omics datasets, DPAS-Graph achieved lower aggregate prediction errors and improved spot-level agreement of protein expression profiles, with gains mainly reflected in error-based metrics and PCC-Spot. Spatial autocorrelation and protein-derived domain agreement analyses were further used to characterize the spatial behavior of the predicted protein maps. When applied to external RNA-only spatial sections, DPAS-Graph generated qualitatively interpretable marker-level virtual protein maps, illustrating its use as a complementary tool for protein-level interpretation of transcriptomics-only spatial data.

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engGNN: a dual-graph neural network for omics-based disease classification and feature selection.

Omics data, such as transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, provide critical insights into disease mechanisms and clinical outcomes. However, their high dimensionality, small sample sizes, and intricate biological networks pose major challenges for reliable prediction and meaningful interpretation. Graph neural networks offer a promising way to integrate prior knowledge by encoding feature relationships as graphs. Yet, existing methods typically rely solely on either an externally curated feature graph or a data-driven generated graph, which limits their ability to capture complementary information. To address this, we propose the external and generated Graph Neural Network (engGNN), a dual-graph framework that jointly leverages both external biological networks and data-driven generated graphs. Specifically, engGNN constructs a biologically informed undirected feature graph from established network databases and complements it with a directed feature graph derived from tree-ensemble models. This dual-graph design produces more comprehensive representations, thereby improving predictive performance and interpretability. Through extensive simulation studies and real-world applications to three independent gene expression datasets, engGNN consistently demonstrates strong classification performance compared with competitive baselines. Beyond classification, engGNN provides feature- and source-level interpretability, enabling biologically meaningful analyses such as pathway enrichment analysis. Taken together, these results highlight engGNN as a robust, flexible, and interpretable framework for disease classification and biomarker discovery in high-dimensional omics contexts.

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NMFProfiler: a multi-omics integration method for samples stratified in groups.

MOTIVATION: The development of high-throughput sequencing enabled the massive production of "omics" data for various applications in biology. By analyzing simultaneously paired datasets collected on the same samples, integrative statistical approaches allow researchers to get a global picture of such systems and to highlight existing relationships between various molecular types and levels. Here, we introduce NMFProfiler, an integrative supervised NMF that accounts for the stratification of samples into groups of biological interest. RESULTS: NMFProfiler was shown to successfully extract signatures characterizing groups with performances comparable to or better than state-of-the-art approaches. In particular, NMFProfiler was used in a clinical study on atopic dermatitis (AD) and to analyze a multi-omic cancer dataset. In the first case, it successfully identified signatures combining known AD protein biomarkers and novel transcriptomic biomarkers. In addition, it was also able to extract signatures significantly associated to cancer survival. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: NMFProfiler is released as a Python package, NMFProfiler (v0.3.0), available on PyPI.

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Gencube: centralized retrieval and integration of multi-omics resources from leading databases.

MOTIVATION: The volume of multi-omics data for diverse species is growing at an unprecedented rate, with new genome assemblies, related annotations, and high-throughput sequencing resources being submitted daily to various genomic data repositories. In response to this data influx, both existing and new databases are establishing optimized hierarchical structures to manage the vast amount of information. However, the lack of accessible command-line tools, combined with the functional limitations and unintuitive design of existing options, presents significant challenges for researchers. This gap underscores a critical need for a tool that enables streamlined retrieval and integration of omics data across these diverse repositories. RESULTS: We have developed Gencube, a command-line tool that enables centralized retrieval and integration of a comprehensive set of six different data types-genome assemblies, gene sets, annotations, sequences, comparative genomic data, and NGS-based omics resources-from various leading databases. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Gencube is a free and open-source tool, with its code available on GitHub: https://github.com/snu-cdrc/gencube and also archived on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14607649.

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MNMO: discover driver genes from a multi-omics data based-multi-layer network.

MOTIVATION: Cancer as a public health problem is driven by genomic variations in "cancer driver" genes. The identification of driver genes is critical for the discovery of key biomarkers and the development of personalized therapy. RESULTS: We propose a prediction method MNMO: a multi-layer network model based on multi-omics data. MNMO firstly constructs a dynamically adjusted four-layer network composed of miRNAs and three kinds of genes with different features. Then three kinds of scores, i.e. control capacity, mutation score, and network score, are devised and calculated by harmonic mean to produce the integrated gene score. Experiments were performed on three kinds of real cancer data to compare the identification performance of method MNMO with that of six state-of-the-art ones. The results indicate that method MNMO presents the best identification performance under most circumstances. The genes prioritized by method MNMO not only have a better match to the benchmark ones than those identified by the other methods, but also are all associated with the development and progression of cancers. In addition, some extended versions of method MNMO can further achieve better performance on most evaluation metrics for some specific datasets. They may be more conducive to identifying tissue-specific genes, which has been verified through a number of experiments. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code and the R package "MNMO" are available at https://github.com/Zheng-D/MNMO. The dataset and code are archived at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14969986.

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IGCN: integrative graph convolution networks for patient level insights and biomarker discovery in multi-omics integration.

MOTIVATION: Developing computational tools for integrative analysis across multiple types of omics data has been of immense importance in cancer molecular biology and precision medicine research. While recent advancements have yielded integrative prediction solutions for multi-omics data, these methods lack a comprehensive and cohesive understanding of the rationale behind their specific predictions. To shed light on personalized medicine and unravel previously unknown characteristics within integrative analysis of multi-omics data, we introduce a novel integrative neural network approach for cancer molecular subtype and biomedical classification applications, named Integrative Graph Convolutional Networks (IGCN). RESULTS: To demonstrate the superiority of IGCN, we compare its performance with other state-of-the-art approaches across different cancer subtype and biomedical classification tasks. Our experimental results show that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art and baseline methods. IGCN identifies which types of omics data receive more emphasis for each patient when predicting a specific class. Additionally, IGCN has the capability to pinpoint significant biomarkers from a range of omics data types. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code is available at https://github.com/bozdaglab/IGCN.

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Composition-on-composition regression analysis for multi-omics integration of metagenomic data.

MOTIVATION: Compositional data are frequently encountered in many disciplines, such as in next-generation sequencing experiments widely used in biomedical studies. Regression analysis with compositional data as either responses or predictors has been well studied. However, when both responses and predictors are compositional, the inventory of analysis tools is surprisingly limited, especially in the high-dimensional setting. Among the few existing methods, most of them rely on a log-ratio transformation to move compositional data from the simplex to real numbers. Yet, a serious weakness of these methods is their failure to handle the substantial fraction of zeroes observed in data collected from next-generation sequencing experiments. RESULTS: To investigate associations between two high-dimensional multi-omics compositions, we propose a composition-on-composition (COC) regression analysis method which does not require log-ratio transformations and hence can handle zeroes in the data. To account for high dimensionality, we estimate regression coefficients using a penalized estimation equation approach. Finally, inference procedures for COC regression are also proposed. Superior performance of COC is demonstrated through both comprehensive numerical simulations and case studies. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Source R codes to implement COC method is available at https://github.com/nrios4/COC.

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scMGCL: accurate and efficient integration representation of single-cell multi-omics data.

MOTIVATION: Single-cell multi-omics data integration is essential for understanding cellular states and disease mechanisms, yet integrating heterogeneous data modalities remains a challenge. We present scMGCL, a graph contrastive learning framework for robust integration of single-cell ATAC-seq and RNA-seq data. Our approach leverages self-supervised learning on cell-cell similarity graphs, in which each modality's graph structure serves as an augmentation for the other. This cross-modality contrastive paradigm enables the learning of biologically meaningful, shared representations while preserving modality-specific features. RESULTS: Benchmarking against state-of-the-art methods demonstrates that scMGCL outperforms others in cell-type clustering, label transfer accuracy, and preservation of marker-gene correlations. Additionally, scMGCL significantly improves computational efficiency, reducing runtime and memory usage. The method's effectiveness is further validated through extensive analyses of cell-type similarity and functional consistency, providing a powerful tool for multi-omics data exploration. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Code and datasets are released at https://github.com/zlCreator/scMGCL.

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MO-GCAN: multi-omics integration based on graph convolutional and attention networks.

MOTIVATION: Cancer subtypes play a critical role in disease progression, prognosis, and treatment, making their detection essential for tailoring precision medicine. Studies have shown that multi-omics integration outperforms single-omics approaches in cancer subtyping tasks. However, due to the high-dimensionality of multi-omics data, many existing studies either fail to capture the correlation between true labels and learned features, or lack sufficient capacity to model complex biological representations. These limitations hinder the full potential of leveraging the rich and complementary information embedded in multi-omics datasets. RESULT: We propose a framework that leverages supervised feature learning and classification based on a graph-based learning approach with attention mechanism for cancer subtyping. More specifically, we train graph convolutional network models on each omics dataset to extract latent representations, which are then concatenated to form a comprehensive multi-omics feature embedding. We further develop sample fusion network based on the omics-specific graphs, incorporating the derived features and feeding them into a graph attention model for subtype classification. This two-stage multi-omics framework is applied to eight cancer types, with performance evaluated in terms of test accuracy, training time, macro-averaged precision, recall, and F-score. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches across various cancer types. Additionally, we provide empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that retaining a limited number of high-confidence edges and utilizing enriched embeddings from intermediate graph neural network layers can improve predictive performance. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Data and the code are available at https://github.com/YD-00/MO-GCAN-Updated.git.

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MPAC: a computational framework for inferring pathway activities from multi-omic data.

MOTIVATION: Fully capturing cellular state requires examining genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and other assays for a biological sample and comprehensive computational modeling to reason with the complex and sometimes conflicting measurements. Modeling these so-called multi-omic data is especially beneficial in disease analysis, where observations across omic data types may reveal unexpected patient groupings and inform clinical outcomes and treatments. RESULTS: We present Multi-omic Pathway Analysis of Cells (MPAC), a computational framework that interprets multi-omic data through prior knowledge from biological pathways. MPAC leverages network relationships encoded in pathways through a factor graph to infer consensus activity levels for proteins and associated pathway entities from multi-omic data, runs permutation testing to eliminate spurious activity predictions, and groups biological samples by pathway activities to allow identifying and prioritizing proteins with potential clinical relevance, e.g. associated with patient prognosis. Using DNA copy number alteration and RNA-seq data from head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients from The Cancer Genome Atlas as an example, we demonstrate that MPAC predicts a patient subgroup related to immune responses not identified by analysis with either input omic data type alone. Key proteins identified via this subgroup have pathway activities related to clinical outcome as well as immune cell composition. Our MPAC R package enables similar multi-omic analyses on new datasets. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The MPAC package is available at Bioconductor https://bioconductor.org/packages/MPAC.

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