A multi-omics digital research object for the genetics of sleep regulation

Sci Data. 2019 Oct 31;6(1):258. doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0171-x.

Abstract

With the aim to uncover the molecular pathways underlying the regulation of sleep, we recently assembled an extensive and comprehensive systems genetics dataset interrogating a genetic reference population of mice at the levels of the genome, the brain and liver transcriptomes, the plasma metabolome, and the sleep-wake phenome. To facilitate a meaningful and efficient re-use of this public resource by others we designed, describe in detail, and made available a Digital Research Object (DRO), embedding data, documentation, and analytics. We present and discuss both the advantages and limitations of our multi-modal resource and analytic pipeline. The reproducibility of the results was tested by a bioinformatician not implicated in the original project and the robustness of results was assessed by re-annotating genetic and transcriptome data from the mm9 to the mm10 mouse genome assembly.

Publication types

  • Dataset

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Genome
  • Metabolome
  • Mice
  • Proteomics
  • Sleep / genetics*
  • Transcriptome