Modelling kidney disease using ontology: insights from the Kidney Precision Medicine Project.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2020

Keywords

JGM

JAX Source

Nat Rev Nephrol 2020 Nov; 16(11):686-696

Volume

16

Issue

11

First Page

686

Last Page

696

ISSN

1759-507X

PMID

32939051

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-020-00335-w

Abstract

An important need exists to better understand and stratify kidney disease according to its underlying pathophysiology in order to develop more precise and effective therapeutic agents. National collaborative efforts such as the Kidney Precision Medicine Project are working towards this goal through the collection and integration of large, disparate clinical, biological and imaging data from patients with kidney disease. Ontologies are powerful tools that facilitate these efforts by enabling researchers to organize and make sense of different data elements and the relationships between them. Ontologies are critical to support the types of big data analysis necessary for kidney precision medicine, where heterogeneous clinical, imaging and biopsy data from diverse sources must be combined to define a patient's phenotype. The development of two new ontologies - the Kidney Tissue Atlas Ontology and the Ontology of Precision Medicine and Investigation - will support the creation of the Kidney Tissue Atlas, which aims to provide a comprehensive molecular, cellular and anatomical map of the kidney. These ontologies will improve the annotation of kidney-relevant data, and eventually lead to new definitions of kidney disease in support of precision medicine.

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