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An Open-Source Knowledge Graph Ecosystem for the Life Sciences
Tiffany J. Callahan, Ignacio J. Tripodi, Adrianne L. Stefanski, Luca Cappelletti, Sanya B. Taneja, Jordan M. Wyrwa, Elena Casiraghi, Nicolas A. Matentzoglu, Justin Reese, Jonathan C. Silverstein, Charles Tapley Hoyt, Richard D. Boyce, Scott A. Malec, Deepak R. Unni, Marcin P. Joachimiak, Peter N. Robinson, Christopher J. Mungall, Emanuele Cavalleri, Tommaso Fontana, Giorgio Valentini, Marco Mesiti, Lucas A. Gillenwater, Brook Santangelo, Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Robert Hoehndorf, Tellen D. Bennett, Patrick B. Ryan, George Hripcsak, Michael G. Kahn, Michael Bada, William A. Baumgartner Jr, Lawrence E. Hunter
Translational research requires data at multiple scales of biological organization. Advancements in sequencing and multi-omics technologies have increased the availability of these data, but researchers face significant integration challenges. Knowledge graphs (KGs) are used to model complex phenomena, and methods exist to construct them automatically. However, tackling complex biomedical integration problems requires flexibility in the way knowledge is modeled. Moreover, existing KG construction methods provide robust tooling at the cost of fixed or limited choices among knowledge representation models. PheKnowLator (Phenotype Knowledge Translator) is a semantic ecosystem for automating the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) construction of ontologically grounded KGs with fully customizable knowledge representation. The ecosystem includes KG construction resources (e.g., data preparation APIs), analysis tools (e.g., SPARQL endpoints and abstraction algorithms), and benchmarks (e.g., prebuilt KGs and embeddings). We evaluated the ecosystem by systematically comparing it to existing open-source KG construction methods and by analyzing its computational performance when used to construct 12 large-scale KGs. With flexible knowledge representation, PheKnowLator enables fully customizable KGs without compromising performance or usability.
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