Pernice S, Maglione A, Tortarolo D, Sirovich R, Clerico M, Rolla S, Beccuti M, Cordero F. A new computational workflow to guide personalized drug therapy.
J Biomed Inform 2023;
148:104546. [PMID:
37984546 DOI:
10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104546]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
Computational models are at the forefront of the pursuit of personalized medicine thanks to their descriptive and predictive abilities. In the presence of complex and heterogeneous data, patient stratification is a prerequisite for effective precision medicine, since disease development is often driven by individual variability and unpredictable environmental events. Herein, we present GreatNectorworkflow as a valuable tool for (i) the analysis and clustering of patient-derived longitudinal data, and (ii) the simulation of the resulting model of patient-specific disease dynamics.
METHODS
GreatNectoris designed by combining an analytic strategy composed of CONNECTOR, a data-driven framework for the inspection of longitudinal data, and an unsupervised methodology to stratify the subjects with GreatMod, a quantitative modeling framework based on the Petri Net formalism and its generalizations.
RESULTS
To illustrate GreatNectorcapabilities, we exploited longitudinal data of four immune cell populations collected from Multiple Sclerosis patients. Our main results report that the T-cell dynamics after alemtuzumab treatment separate non-responders versus responders patients, and the patients in the non-responders group are characterized by an increase of the Th17 concentration around 36 months.
CONCLUSION
GreatNectoranalysis was able to stratify individual patients into three model meta-patients whose dynamics suggested insight into patient-tailored interventions.
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