Federated privacy-protected meta- and mega-omics data analysis in multi-center studies with a fully open-source analytic platform

The importance of maintaining data privacy and complying with regulatory requirements is highlighted especially when sharing omic data between different research centers. This challenge is even more pronounced in the scenario where a multi-center effort for collaborative omics studies is necessary....

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Autores: Escribà Montagut, Xavier, Marcon, Yannick, Anguita Ruiz, Augusto, Avraam, Demetris, Urquiza, José M., Morgan, Andrei S., Wilson, Rebecca C., Burton, Paul, González, Juan Ramón
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/69587
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012626
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Genome-wide association studies
Metaanalysis
Genome analysis
Genomics
Algorithms
Data management
Single nucleotide polymorphisms
Statistical data
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Sumario:The importance of maintaining data privacy and complying with regulatory requirements is highlighted especially when sharing omic data between different research centers. This challenge is even more pronounced in the scenario where a multi-center effort for collaborative omics studies is necessary. OmicSHIELD is introduced as an open-source tool aimed at overcoming these challenges by enabling privacy-protected federated analysis of sensitive omic data. In order to ensure this, multiple security mechanisms have been included in the software. This innovative tool is capable of managing a wide range of omic data analyses specifically tailored to biomedical research. These include genome and epigenome wide association studies and differential gene expression analyses. OmicSHIELD is designed to support both meta- and mega-analysis, so that it offers a wide range of capabilities for different analysis designs. We present a series of use cases illustrating some examples of how the software addresses real-world analyses of omic data.