Artificial intelligence guided discovery of a barrier-protective therapy in inflammatory bowel disease.

ABSTRACT: Modeling human diseases as networks simplify complex multi-cellular processes, helps understand patterns in noisy data that humans cannot find, and thereby improves precision in prediction. Using Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) as an example, here we outline an unbiased AI-assisted approach for target identification and validation. A network was built in which clusters of genes are connected by directed edges that highlight asymmetric Boolean relationships. Using machine-learning, a path of continuum states was pinpointed, which most effectively predicted disease outcome. This path was enriched in gene-clusters that maintain the integrity of the gut epithelial barrier. We exploit this insight to prioritize one target, choose appropriate pre-clinical murine models for target validation and

SUBMITTER: Sahoo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8275683 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature