A multi-omics data simulator for complex disease studies and its application to evaluate multi-omics data analysis methods for disease classification.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An integrative multi-omics analysis approach that combines multiple types of omics data including genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and microbiomics has become increasing popular for understanding the pathophysiology of complex diseases. Although many multi-omics analysis methods have been developed for complex disease studies, only a few simulation tools that simulate multiple types of omics data and model their relationships with disease status are available, and these tools have their limitations in simulating the multi-omics data.

Results

We developed the multi-omics data simulator OmicsSIMLA, which simulates genomics (i.e., single-nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs] and copy number variations), epigenomics (i.e., bisulphite sequenc

SUBMITTER: Chung RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6486474 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature