Interactive Big Data Resource to Elucidate Human Immune Pathways and Diseases. Author Dmitriy Gorenshteyn, Elena Zaslavsky, Miguel Fribourg, Christopher Park, Aaron Wong, Alicja Tadych, Boris Hartmann, Randy Albrecht, Adolfo García-Sastre, Steven Kleinstein, Olga Troyanskaya, Stuart Sealfon Publication Year 2015 Type Journal Article Abstract Many functionally important interactions between genes and proteins involved in immunological diseases and processes are unknown. The exponential growth in public high-throughput data offers an opportunity to expand this knowledge. To unlock human-immunology-relevant insight contained in the global biomedical research effort, including all public high-throughput datasets, we performed immunological-pathway-focused Bayesian integration of a comprehensive, heterogeneous compendium comprising 38,088 genome-scale experiments. The distillation of this knowledge into immunological networks of functional relationships between molecular entities (ImmuNet), and tools to mine this resource, are accessible to the public at http://immunet.princeton.edu. The predictive capacity of ImmuNet, established by rigorous statistical validation, is easily accessed by experimentalists to generate data-driven hypotheses. We demonstrate the power of this approach through the identification of unique host-virus interaction responses, and we show how ImmuNet complements genetic studies by predicting disease-associated genes. ImmuNet should be widely beneficial for investigating the mechanisms of the human immune system and immunological diseases. Keywords Humans, Signal Transduction, Computational Biology, Algorithms, Reproducibility of Results, Internet, Host-Pathogen Interactions, Transcriptome, Protein Interaction Maps, Protein Interaction Mapping, Gene Regulatory Networks, Bayes Theorem, Immune System, Immune System Diseases, Support Vector Machine, Virus Diseases Journal Immunity Volume 43 Issue 3 Pages 605-14 Date Published 2015 Sep 15 ISSN Number 1097-4180 DOI 10.1016/j.immuni.2015.08.014 Alternate Journal Immunity PMCID PMC4753773 PMID 26362267 PubMedPubMed CentralGoogle ScholarBibTeXEndNote X3 XML