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SpiderSeqR: an R package for crawling the web of high-throughput multi-omic data repositories for data-sets and annotation

View ORCID ProfileAnna M. Sozanska, Charles Fletcher, View ORCID ProfileDóra Bihary, View ORCID ProfileShamith A. Samarajiwa
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.13.039420
Anna M. Sozanska
1MRC Cancer Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Box 197, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0XZ, UK
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Charles Fletcher
1MRC Cancer Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Box 197, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0XZ, UK
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Dóra Bihary
1MRC Cancer Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Box 197, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0XZ, UK
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Shamith A. Samarajiwa
1MRC Cancer Unit, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Box 197, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0XZ, UK
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More than three decades ago, the microarray revolution brought about high-throughput data generation capability to biology and medicine. Subsequently, the emergence of massively parallel sequencing technologies led to many big-data initiatives such as the human genome project and the encyclopedia of DNA elements (ENCODE) project. These, in combination with cheaper, faster massively parallel DNA sequencing capabilities, have democratised multi-omic (genomic, transcriptomic, translatomic and epigenomic) data generation leading to a data deluge in bio-medicine. While some of these data-sets are trapped in inaccessible silos, the vast majority of these data-sets are stored in public data resources and controlled access data repositories, enabling their wider use (or misuse). Currently, most peer reviewed publications require the deposition of the data-set associated with a study under consideration in one of these public data repositories. However, clunky and difficult to use interfaces, subpar or incomplete annotation prevent discovering, searching and filtering of these multi-omic data and hinder their re-purposing in other use cases. In addition, the proliferation of multitude of different data repositories, with partially redundant storage of similar data are yet another obstacle to their continued usefulness. Similarly, interfaces where annotation is spread across multiple web pages, use of accession identifiers with ambiguous and multiple interpretations and lack of good curation make these data-sets difficult to use. We have produced SpiderSeqR, an R package, whose main features include the integration between NCBI GEO and SRA databases, enabling an integrated unified search of SRA and GEO data-sets and associated annotations, conversion between database accessions, as well as convenient filtering of results and saving past queries for future use. All of the above features aim to promote data reuse to facilitate making new discoveries and maximising the potential of existing data-sets.

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SpiderSeqR: an R package for crawling the web of high-throughput multi-omic data repositories for data-sets and annotation
Anna M. Sozanska, Charles Fletcher, Dóra Bihary, Shamith A. Samarajiwa
bioRxiv 2020.04.13.039420; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.13.039420
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SpiderSeqR: an R package for crawling the web of high-throughput multi-omic data repositories for data-sets and annotation
Anna M. Sozanska, Charles Fletcher, Dóra Bihary, Shamith A. Samarajiwa
bioRxiv 2020.04.13.039420; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.13.039420

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