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Discovering Yourself with Computational Bioinformatics Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI 2 ) Distinguished Seminar Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ May 9, 2013 Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD 1

Abstract For over a decade, Calit2 has had a driving vision that healthcare is being transformed into digitally enabled genomic medicine. Combined with advances in nanotechnology and MEMS, a new generation of body sensors is rapidly developing. As these real-time data streams are stored in the cloud, cross population comparisons becomes increasingly possible and the availability of biofeedback leads to behavior change toward wellness. To put a more personal face on the "patient of the future," I have been increasingly quantifying my own body over the last ten years. In addition to external markers I also currently track over 100 blood biomarkers and dozens of molecular and microbial variables in my stool. Using my saliva 23andme.com obtained 1 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in my human DNA. My gut microbiome has been metagenomically sequenced by the J. Craig Venter Institute, yielding 25 billion DNA bases. I will show how one can discover emerging disease states before they develop serious symptoms using this Big Data approach. Hundreds of thousands of supercomputer CPU-hours were used in this voyage of self-discovery.

Where I Believe We are Headed: Predictive, Personalized, Preventive, & Participatory Medicine I am Lee Hoods Lab Rat!

Calit2 Has Been Had a Vision of the Digital Transformation of Health for a Decade Next StepPutting You On-Line! –Wireless Internet Transmission –Key Metabolic and Physical Variables –Model -- Dozens of Processors and 60 Sensors / Actuators Inside of our Cars Post-Genomic Individualized Medicine –Combine –Genetic Code –Body Data Flow –Use Powerful AI Data Mining Techniques The Content of This Slide from 2001 Larry Smarr Calit2 Talk on Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine

The Calit2 Vision of Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine is an Emerging Reality 5 July/August 2011 February 2012

LifeChips: the merging of two major industries, the microelectronic chip industry with the life science industry LifeChips medical devices Lifechips--Merging Two Major Industries: Microelectronic Chips & Life Sciences 65 UCI Faculty

Temporary Tattoo Biosensors Can Measure pH and Lactate in Sweat From the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Laboratory for Nanobioelectronics-Prof. Joe Wang

CitiSense –UCSD NSF Grant for Fine-Grained Exposome Sensing Using Cell Phones CitiSense contribute distribute sense display discover retrieve Seacoast Sci. 4oz 30 compounds 4oz 30 compounds EPA CitiSense Team PI: Bill Griswold Ingolf Krueger Tajana Simunic Rosing Sanjoy Dasgupta Hovav Shacham Kevin Patrick C/A L S W F Intel MSP

CitiSense Atmospheric Sensor Platform: Sensors Will Miniaturize and Diversify

By Measuring the State of My Body and Tuning It Using Nutrition and Exercise, I Became Healthier 2000 Age Age Age I Arrived in La Jolla in 2000 After 20 Years in the Midwest and Decided to Move Against the Obesity Trend I Reversed My Bodys Decline By Quantifying and Altering Nutrition and Exercise

Challenge-Develop Standards to Enable MashUps of Personal Sensor Data Across Private Clouds Withing/iPhone- Blood Pressure Zeo-Sleep Azumio-Heart Rate EM Wave PC- Stress MyFitnessPal- Calories Ingested FitBit - Daily Steps & Calories Burned

From Measuring Macro-Variables to Measuring Your Internal Variables

From One to a Billion Data Points Defining Me: The Exponential Rise in Body Data in Just One Decade! Billion: My Full DNA, MRI/CT Images Million: My DNA SNPs, Zeo, FitBit Hundred: My Blood Variables One: My Weight Weight Blood Variables SNPs Microbial Genome Improving Body Discovering Disease

Visualizing Time Series of 150 LS Blood and Stool Variables, Each Over 5-10 Years Calit2 64 megapixel VROOM

Only One of My Blood Measurements Was Far Out of Range--Indicating Chronic Inflammation Normal Range<1 mg/L Normal 27x Upper Limit Antibiotics Episodic Peaks in Inflammation Followed by Spontaneous Drops Complex Reactive Protein (CRP) is a Blood Biomarker for Detecting Presence of Inflammation

High Values of Lactoferrin (Shed from Neutrophils) From Stool Sample Suggested Inflammation in Colon Normal Range <7.3 µg/mL 124x Upper Limit Antibiotics Typical Lactoferrin Value for Active IBD Stool Samples Analyzed by Lactoferrin is a Sensitive and Specific Biomarker for Detecting Presence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Descending Colon Sigmoid Colon Threading Iliac Arteries Major Kink Confirming the IBD (Crohns) Hypothesis: Finding the Smoking Gun with MRI Imaging I Obtained the MRI Slices From UCSD Medical Services and Converted to Interactive 3D Working With Calit2er Jurgen Schulzes DeskVOX Software Transverse Colon Liver Small Intestine Diseased Sigmoid Colon Cross Section MRI Jan 2012

An MRI Shows Sigmoid Colon Wall Thickened Indicating Probable Diagnosis of Crohns Disease

Why Did I Have an Autoimmune Disease like IBD? Despite decades of research, the etiology of Crohn's disease remains unknown. Its pathogenesis may involve a complex interplay between host genetics, immune dysfunction, and microbial or environmental factors. --The Role of Microbes in Crohn's Disease Paul B. Eckburg & David A. Relman Clin Infect Dis. 44: (2007) So I Set Out to Quantify All Three!

The Cost of Sequencing a Human Genome Has Fallen Over 10,000x in the Last Ten Years! This Has Enabled Sequencing of Both Human and Microbial Genomes

I Wondered if Crohns is an Autoimmune Disease, Did I Have a Personal Genomic Polymorphism? From SNPs Associated with CD Polymorphism in Interleukin-23 Receptor Gene 80% Higher Risk of Pro-inflammatory Immune Response NOD2 ATG16L1 IRGM Now Comparing 163 Known IBD SNPs with 23andme SNP Chip

Crohns May be a Related Set of Diseases Driven by Different SNPs Me-Male CD Onset At 60-Years Old Female CD Onset At 20-Years Old NOD2 (1) rs Il-23R rs

Autoimmune Disease Overlap from SNP GWAS Gut Lees, et al. 60: (2011)

Imagine Crowdsourcing 23andme SNPs For Even a Small Portion of Crohnology!

But the Human Genome Contains Less Than 1% of the Bodies Genes The Total Number of These Bacterial Cells is 10 Times the Number of Human Cells in Your Body

But How Can You Determine Which Microbes Are Within You? The emerging field of metagenomics, where the DNA of entire communities of microbes is studied simultaneously, presents the greatest opportunity -- perhaps since the invention of the microscope – to revolutionize understanding of the microbial world. – National Research Council March 27, 2007 NRC Report: Metagenomic data should be made publicly available in international archives as rapidly as possible.

Infrastructure Services Extend CAMERA Computations to 3 rd Party Compute Resources NSF/SDSC Gordon UCSD Triton NSF/SDSC Trestles NSF/RCAC Steele NSF/TACC Lonestar NSF/TACC Ranger Core CAMERA HPC Resource Calit2 Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA) Source: Jeff Grethe, CRBS, UCSD >5000 Users >90 Countries

CAMERA and NIH Funded Weizhong Li Groups Metagenomic Computational NextGen Sequencing Pipeline Raw reads Reads QC HQ reads: Filter human Bowtie/BWA against Human genome and mRNAs Bowtie/BWA against Human genome and mRNAs Unique reads CD-HIT-Dup For single or PE reads CD-HIT-Dup For single or PE reads Further filtered reads Further filtered reads Filtered reads Filter duplicate Cluster-based Denoising Cluster-based Denoising Contigs Assemble Velvet, SOAPdenovo, Abyss K-mer setting Velvet, SOAPdenovo, Abyss K-mer setting Contigs with Abundance Contigs with Abundance Mapping BWA Bowtie Taxonomy binning Filter errors Read recruitment FR-HIT against Non-redundant microbial genomes FR-HIT against Non-redundant microbial genomes Visualization FRV tRNAs rRNAs tRNAs rRNAs tRNA-scan rRNA - HMM ORFs ORF-finder Megagene Non redundant ORFs Non redundant ORFs Core ORF clusters Cd-hit at 95% Cd-hit at 60% Protein families Cd-hit at 30% 1e-6 Function Pathway Annotation Function Pathway Annotation Pfam Tigrfam COG KOG PRK KEGG eggNOG Pfam Tigrfam COG KOG PRK KEGG eggNOG Hmmer RPS-blast blast PI: (Weizhong Li, UCSD): NIH R01HG ( , $1.1M)

We Used SDSCs Gordon Data-Intensive Supercomputer to Analyze a Wide Range of Gut Microbiomes Analyzed Healthy and IBD Patients: –LS, 13 Crohn's Disease & 11 Ulcerative Colitis Patients, HMP Healthy Subjects Gordon Compute Time –~1/2 CPU-Year Per Sample –> 200,000 CPU-Hours so far Gordon RAM Required –64GB RAM for Most Steps –192GB RAM for Assembly Gordon Disk Required –8TB for All Subjects – Input, Intermediate and Final Results Enabled by a Grant of Time on Gordon from SDSC Director Mike Norman Venter Sequencing of LS Gut Microbiome: 230 M Reads 101 Bases Per Read 23 Billion DNA Bases

2012 Was the Year of Human Microbiome

When We Think About Biological Diversity We Typically Think of the Wide Range of Animals But All These Animals Are in One SubPhylum Vertebrata of the Chordata Phylum All images from Wikimedia Commons. Photos are public domain or by Trisha Shears & Richard Bartz

Think of These Phyla of Animals When You Consider the Biodiversity of Microbes Inside You All images from WikiMedia Commons. Photos are public domain or by Dan Hershman, Michael Linnenbach, Manuae, B_cool Phylum Annelida Phylum Echinodermata Phylum Cnidaria Phylum Mollusca Phylum Arthropoda Phylum Chordata

Most Biological Diversity on Earth is in the Microbial World Source: Carl Woese, et al Last Slide Evolutionary Distance Derived from Comparative Sequencing of 16S or 18S Ribosomal RNA Red Circles Are Dominate Human Gut Microbes

June 8, 2012June 14, 2012 Intense Scientific Research is Underway on Understanding the Human Microbiome From Culturing Bacteria to Sequencing Them

To Map My Gut Microbes, I Sent a Stool Sample to the Venter Institute for Metagenomic Sequencing Gel Image of Extract from Smarr Sample-Next is Library Construction Manny Torralba, Project Lead - Human Genomic Medicine J Craig Venter Institute January 25, 2012 Shipped Stool Sample December 28, 2011 I Received a Disk Drive April 3, 2012 With 35 GB FASTQ Files Weizhong Li, UCSD NGS Pipeline: 230M Reads Only 0.2% Human Required 1/2 cpu-yr Per Person Analyzed! Sequencing Funding Provided by UCSD School of Health Sciences

We Computationally Align 230M Illumina Short Reads With a Reference Genome Set & Then Visually Analyze

Additional Phenotypes Added from NIH HMP For Comparative Analysis 5 Ileal Crohns, 3 Points in Time 6 Ulcerative Colitis, 1 Point in Time 35 Healthy Individuals 1 Point in Time

We Find Major Shifts in Microbial Ecology Between Healthy and Two Forms of IBD Collapse of Bacteroidetes Explosion of Proteobacteria Microbiome Dysbiosis or Mass Extinction? On the IBD Spectrum

Almost All Abundant Species (1%) in Healthy Subjects Are Severely Depleted in LS Gut

Top 20 Most Abundant Microbial Species In LS vs. Average Healthy Subject 152x 765x 148x 849x 483x 220x 201x 522x 169x Number Above LS Blue Bar is Multiple of LS Abundance Compared to Average Healthy Abundance Per Species Source: Sequencing JCVI; Analysis Weizhong Li, UCSD LS December 28, 2011 Stool Sample

Major Changes in LS Microbiome Before and After 1 Month Antibiotic & 2 Month Prednisone Therapy Reduced 45x Reduced 90x Therapy Greatly Reduced Two Phyla, But Massive Reduction in Bacteroidetes And Large % Proteobacteria Remain Small Changes With No Therapy How Does One Get Back to a Healthy Gut Microbiome?

Integrative Personal Omics Profiling Using 100x My Quantifying Biomarkers Michael Snyder, Chair of Genomics Stanford Univ. Genome 140x Coverage Blood Tests 20 Times in 14 Months –tracked nearly 20,000 distinct transcripts coding for 12,000 genes –measured the relative levels of more than 6,000 proteins and 1,000 metabolites in Snyder's blood Cell 148, 1293–1307, March 16, 2012

Proposed UCSD/JCVI Integrated Omics Pipeline Source: Nuno Bandiera, UCSD

UCSD Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry Becoming Global MS Repository ProteoSAFe: Compute-intensive discovery MS at the click of a button MassIVE: repository and identification platform for all MS data in the world Source: Nuno Bandeira, Vineet Bafna, Pavel Pevzner, Ingolf Krueger, UCSD proteomics.ucsd.edu

A Big Data Freeway System Connecting Users to Remote Campus Clusters & Scientific Instruments Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC, Calit2, PI

Arista Enables SDSCs Massively Parallel 10G Switched Data Analysis Resource

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) Usage Is Growing Over Time More than 300,000 Unique Visitors per Month Up to 300 Concurrent Users ~10 Structures are Downloaded per Second 7/24/365 Increasingly Popular Web Services Traffic Source: Phil Bourne and Andreas Prlić, PDB

Why is it Important? –Enables PDB to Better Serve Its Users by Providing Increased Reliability and Quicker Results How Will it be Done? –By More Evenly Allocating PDB Resources at Rutgers and UCSD –By Directing Users to the Closest Site Need High Bandwidth Between Rutgers & UCSD Facilities PDB Plans to Establish Global Load Balancing Source: Phil Bourne and Andreas Prlić, PDB

Integrating Systems Biology Data: Cytoscape On Vroom-64MPixels Connected at 50Gbps Calit2 Collaboration with Trey Idekar Group

A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype A model of Mycoplasma genitalium, 525 genes Using 1,900 experimental observations From 900 studies, They created the software model, Which requires 128 computers to run

Early Attempts at Modeling the Systems Biology of the Gut Microbiome and the Human Immune System

Next Challenge: Building a Multi-Cellular Organism Simulation OpenWorm is an attempt to build a complete cellular-level simulation of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Of the 959 cells in the hermaphrodite, 302 are neurons and 95 are muscle cells.nematodeCaenorhabditis eleganshermaphrodite The simulation will model electrical activity in all the muscles and neurons. An integrated soft-body physics simulation will also model body movement and physical forces within the worm and from its environment.soft-body physics

A Vision for Healthcare in the Coming Decades Using this data, the planetary computer will be able to build a computational model of your body and compare your sensor stream with millions of others. Besides providing early detection of internal changes that could lead to disease, cloud-powered voice-recognition wellness coaches could provide continual personalized support on lifestyle choices, potentially staving off disease and making health care affordable for everyone. ESSAY An Evolution Toward a Programmable Universe By LARRY SMARR Published: December 5, 2011