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SURF 2021 - BioThings Explorer

Saiido Noor

Dr. Andrew Su Lab

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About Me

  • Hi again!

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  • Minnesota born and raised, family from Somalia.

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  • Go Scots! Class of ‘23

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BioThings Explorer - BTE

  • An engine for querying a distributed knowledge graph.

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  • Described as “new architecture for biomedical data integration”

Xin J, Afrasiabi C, Lelong S et al. BioThings Explorer: utilizing JSON-LD for linking biological APIs to facilitate knowledge discovery [version 1; not peer reviewed]. F1000Research 2017, 6(ISCB Comm J):1173 (poster) (https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.1114451.1)

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Project Overview

Use Case with BioThings Explorer

  • Patient symptom: paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dyskinesia

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  • Gene involved: KCNMA1

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Solving Patient Cases with BioThings Explorer

BTE via Postman

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Solving Patient Cases with BioThings Explorer

BTE via Pycharm (using pandas package)

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Next Steps...

  • Continue learning about pandas methods

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  • Narrow down on information via data manipulation

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  • Research, research, research!

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Thank you!