Abstract: The technological advances and accumulation of biomedical datasets are yielding unprecedented opportunities to better understand genetic diseases, but necessitate proper exploration and integration methods to unravel a complete picture of biological systems. I will discuss about the computational strategies we recently developed, using i) multilayer networks to integrate a large range of interactions, and associated exploration algorithms and ii) dimensionality reduction to extract biological knowledge simultaneously from multiple omics. On the application side, I will discuss about the analysis of rare genetic diseases, which raise various challenges: many patients are undiagnosed, phenotypes can be highly heterogeneous, and only a few treatments exist.

Place: Virtual seminar via Zoom, with required registration.