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Drug-target identification in COVID-19 disease mechanisms using computational systems biology approaches

  • Anna Niarakis*
  • , Marek Ostaszewski
  • , Alexander Mazein
  • , Inna Kuperstein
  • , Martina Kutmon
  • , Marc E. Gillespie
  • , Akira Funahashi
  • , Marcio Luis Acencio
  • , Ahmed Hemedan
  • , Michael Aichem
  • , Karsten Klein
  • , Tobias Czauderna
  • , Felicia Burtscher
  • , Takahiro G. Yamada
  • , Yusuke Hiki
  • , Noriko F. Hiroi
  • , Finterly Hu
  • , Nhung Pham
  • , Friederike Ehrhart
  • , Egon L. Willighagen
  • Alberto Valdeolivas, Aurelien Dugourd, Francesco Messina, Marina Esteban-Medina, Maria Peña-Chilet, Kinza Rian, Sylvain Soliman, Sara Sadat Aghamiri, Bhanwar Lal Puniya, Aurélien Naldi, Tomáš Helikar, Vidisha Singh, Marco Fariñas Fernández, Viviam Bermudez, Eirini Tsirvouli, Arnau Montagud, Vincent Noël, Miguel Ponce-de-Leon, Dieter Maier, Angela Bauch, Benjamin M. Gyori, John A. Bachman, Augustin Luna, Janet Piñero, Laura I. Furlong, Irina Balaur, Adrien Rougny, Yohan Jarosz, Rupert W. Overall, Robert Phair, Livia Perfetto, Lisa Matthews, Devasahayam Arokia Balaya Rex, Marija Orlic-Milacic, Luis Cristobal Monraz Gomez, Bertrand De Meulder, Jean Marie Ravel, Bijay Jassal, Venkata Satagopam, Guanming Wu, Martin Golebiewski, Piotr Gawron, Laurence Calzone, Jacques S. Beckmann, Chris T. Evelo, Peter D’Eustachio, Falk Schreiber, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Joaquin Dopazo, Martin Kuiper, Alfonso Valencia, Olaf Wolkenhauer, Hiroaki Kitano, Emmanuel Barillot, Charles Auffray, Rudi Balling, Reinhard Schneider
*Corresponding author for this work
    • Paris-Saclay University
    • National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology
    • Paul Sabatier University
    • University of Luxembourg
    • Institut Curie
    • National Institute of Health and Medical Research
    • Paris Sciences et Lettres University
    • Maastricht University
    • Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
    • St. John's University
    • Keio University
    • University of Konstanz
    • University of Applied Sciences Mittweida
    • Kanagawa Institute of Technology
    • Keio University School of Medicine
    • Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
    • National Institute for Infectious Diseases 'Lazzaro Spallanzani'
    • Andalusian Public Foundation Progress and Health
    • Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío
    • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    • Barcelona Supercomputing Center
    • Labvantage - Biomax GmbH
    • Harvard Medical School
    • United States National Library of Medicine
    • MedBioinformatics Solutions SL
    • Pompeu Fabra University
    • National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    • Humboldt University
    • Vizient Inc.
    • Sapienza University of Rome
    • NYU Langone Health
    • Yenepoya University
    • European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine
    • Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
    • Oregon Health & Sciences University
    • Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS)
    • University of Lausanne
    • Monash University
    • Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
    • University of Rostock
    • The Systems Biology Institute
    • University of Bonn

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    Abstract

    Introduction: The COVID-19 Disease Map project is a large-scale community effort uniting 277 scientists from 130 Institutions around the globe. We use high-quality, mechanistic content describing SARS-CoV-2-host interactions and develop interoperable bioinformatic pipelines for novel target identification and drug repurposing. Methods: Extensive community work allowed an impressive step forward in building interfaces between Systems Biology tools and platforms. Our framework can link biomolecules from omics data analysis and computational modelling to dysregulated pathways in a cell-, tissue- or patient-specific manner. Drug repurposing using text mining and AI-assisted analysis identified potential drugs, chemicals and microRNAs that could target the identified key factors. Results: Results revealed drugs already tested for anti-COVID-19 efficacy, providing a mechanistic context for their mode of action, and drugs already in clinical trials for treating other diseases, never tested against COVID-19. Discussion: The key advance is that the proposed framework is versatile and expandable, offering a significant upgrade in the arsenal for virus-host interactions and other complex pathologies.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number1282859
    JournalFrontiers in Immunology
    Volume14
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2023

    Keywords

    • disease maps
    • dynamic models
    • large-scale community effort
    • mechanistic models
    • SARS-CoV-2
    • systems biology
    • systems medicine

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