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Building the biological Babylon Tower with
Building the biological Babylon Tower with
standard representations of pathways
standard representations of pathways
Nicolas Le Novère
Babraham Institute,
n.lenovere@gmail.com
Biochemical pathways are old …
Nicholson (1970) Michal (1984)
Gortner (1949)
“Hand drawing” on paper
→ no software-based browsing, processing and analysis
Biochemical pathways are old … or not so much
● 1990s: high-throughput data generation → Large amount of knowledge
increase in computing power → automatic reconstruction, browsing
and analysis
● Databases: EcoCyc (1994), KEGG (1995), Reactome (2000)
● Formats: BioPAX (2000), SBML (2000), PSI-MI (2002)
Nicholson (1970) Michal (1984)
Gortner (1949)
http://vmh.uni.lu
UNDERSTAND
Metabolic networks
Oda K. Mol Syst Biol. 2005;1:2005.0010.
UNDERSTAND
Signalling pathways
Davidson's map
Davidson et al. Science (2002)
R.I.P.
September 2015
UNDERSTAND
Gene regulatory networks
Liu et al (2009) Nat Rev Drug Discov CURE
Liu et al (2009) Nat Rev Drug Discov
Breast cancer
CURE
Abou-Sleiman et al (2006) Nat Rev Neurosci Parkinson’s disease
CURE
Abou-Sleiman et al (2006) Nat Rev Neurosci Parkinson’s disease
CURE
Team Nanjing, iGEM (2013) Synthetic Biology
BUILD
Ambiguity of usual representations
Ambiguity of usual representations
Can-this be understood by biologists?
Can-this be understood by biologists?
Stimulates? but ...
what exactly?
Associates into?
Translocates?
No idea. Reciprocal
stimulation?
Is degraded?
Stimulates gene
transcription?
Ambiguity of usual representations
Ambiguity of usual representations
Every computer scientist understands those
Every physicist understands this
Every engineer understands that
The Systems Biology Graphical Notation
 A tool to graphically describe and unambiguously interpret biochemical
and cellular events
 Limited amount of symbols  Smooth learning curve
 Can represent logical or mechanistic models, biochemical pathways, at
different levels of granularity
 Detailed technical specification, precise data-models, standard API and
growing software support
 Developed over ten years by a diverse community, including biologists,
modellers, computer scientists etc.
Interaction
network
Reaction
network
Influence
network
signalling
Gene
network
Met
Netw
Coval
modifica
Synthetic
lethality
fluxes
complexes
Different granularities of a pathway
● No temporal sequence
● No directionality
● No biochemical effects
● No mechanistic descriptions
● No temporal sequence
● No directionality
● No biochemical effects
● No mechanistic descriptions
● Directionality of influence
● Directionality of influence
● Directionality of influence
● Directionality of effect
● Directionality of influence
● Directionality of effect
● Directionality of influence
● Directionality of effect
● Biochemical effect
● Directionality of influence
● Directionality of effect
● Biochemical effect
One notation – three languages
 Logical modelling
 Signalling pathways, gene regulatory networks
Functional descriptions: the Activity Flows
http://www.genome.jp/kegg/pathway.html
“non-metabolic” part
http://stke.sciencemag.org/cm/
http://cgap.nci.nih.gov/Pathways/BioCarta.org
Davidson's map Davidson et al. Science (2002)
SBGN Activity Flows L1 reference card
Example
of Activity
Flow map
TIMTOWTDI
(There Is More Than One Way To Do It)
*YOU* choose how to represent it
SBGN makes sure it will be unambiguously interpreted
*YOU* choose how to represent it
SBGN makes sure it will be unambiguously interpreted
Puting in mechanisms: describing processes
A biochemical reaction is a process
S1
S2
E
P
A biochemical reaction is a process
→ Reconstruction of state variable evolution
from process descriptions:
● Processes can be combined in ODEs (for deterministic simulations);
transformed in propensities (for stochastic simulations)
● Systems can be reconfigured quickly by adding or removing a process
S1
S2
E
P
 Process modelling
 Biochemistry, Metabolic networks
 Generally within “closed world”
 Subjected to combinatorial explosion
SBGN Process Descriptions
Open world
Closed world
Anything not explicitly stated is unknown
Failure to observe does not imply non-existence
New pieces of knowledge do not affect prior pieces
Anything not explicitly stated does not exist
Failure to observe implies non-existence
New pieces of knowledge might change the meaning of prior pieces
http://www.reactome.org
http://www.genome.jp/kegg/pathway.html
“metabolic” part
SBGN Process Diagram L1 reference card
Entity Pool Nodes
Process Nodes
Connecting arcs
Metabolism in SBGN PD
Signalling in SBDG PD
Multicellular
processes
Variable granularity
All those diagrams are identical
C
C
D
D
A
A
B
B
C
D
A
B
A
B
C
D
C
D
A
B
Reactome
Parkinson’s
Disease map
Recon map
PathVisio
CellDesigner
Vanted
 Rule-based modelling
 Molecular Biology
 “Open world”
 Independent rules: no explosion
Entity Relationships
Molecular Interaction Maps
Extended Contact Maps
SBGN Entity Relationships L1 reference card
pre:label
SBGN Entity Relationships L1 reference card
continuants,
things that exists (or not)
pre:label
SBGN Entity Relationships L1 reference card
occurrents,
events that may happen (or not)
pre:label
A
B
T
P
Entity Relationships can be viewed as rules
A
B
If A exists, the assignment of the value P to the
state variable T of B is increased
Entity Relationships can be viewed as rules
P
T
A
B
If A exists, the assignment of the value P to the
state variable T of B is increased
Entity Relationships can be viewed as rules
(A stimulates the phosphorylation of B on the threonine)
P
T
A
B
If A exists, the assignment of the value P to the
state variable T of B is increased
C
S
P
Entity Relationships can be viewed as rules
If P is assigned to the state variable T of B, the
assignment of the value P to the state variable S of
B is decreased
T
P
Multistate and combinatorial explosion
EGFR
Y654
Y721
Y845
Y891
Y920
Y992
Y1045
Y1068
Y1086
Y1101
Y1148
Y1173
Process Descriptions:
“once a state variable value,
always a state variable value”
212
= 4096 states
(i.e. EPN glyphs) for EGFR
and 4096 complexes between
EGFR and targets
P
target1
P
target2
P
target3
P
target4
P
target5
P
target6
P
target7
P
target8
P
target9
P
target10
P
target11
P
target12
Regulation of synaptic plasticity by calcium
SBGN AF
L1V1.0
04-SEP-2009
SBGN AF
L1V1.2
27-JUL-2015
SBGN ER
L1V1.0
03-SEP-2009
SBGN ER
L1V1.1
06-OCT-2010
SBGN ER
L1V1.2
14-APR-2011
SBGN ER
L1V2
08-AUG-2015
SBGN PD
L1V1.0
15-AUG-2008
SBGN PD
L1V1.1
02-SEP-2009
SBGN PD
L1V1.2
03-OCT-2010
SBGN PD
L1V1.3
14-FEB-2011
Decision to
Create SBGN
OCT-2005
Tokyo
SBGN 1
FEB-2006
Tokyo
SBGN 2
OCT-2006
Yokohama
SBGN 2.5
MAR-2007
Heidelberg
SBGN 3
SEP-2007
Long Beach
SBGN 3.5
JAN-2008
Okinawa
SBGN 4
OCT-2008
Rostock
SBGN 4.5
APR-2009
Waiheke
SBGN 5
SEP-2009
Stanford
SBGN 5.5
APR-2010
Wittenberg
COMBINE
OCT-2010
Edinburg
HARMONY
APR-2011
New-York
COMBINE
SEP-2011
Heidelberg
HARMONY
MAY-2012
Maastricht
COMBINE
AUG-2012
Toronto
SBGN 9
MAY-2013
Edinburgh
COMBINE
AUG-2014
Los Angeles
HARMONY
MAY-2013
Farmington
COMBINE
SEP-2013
Paris
HARMONY
APR-2014
Manchester
HARMONY
APR-2015
Wittenberg
COMBINE
OCT-2015
Salt Lake City
HARMONY
JUN-2016
Auckland
COMBINE
SEP-2016
Newcastles
SBGN-ML
Are we done? Everything is solved, right?
Multi-compartment entities
Easy in AF
Cumbersome
in ER
molecular species
(entity pool nodes)
belong to a single
compartment
impossible
In PD
Multi-compartment complexes do not
solve the problem, since they represent
Non-covalent assemblies
Loose the fact that
Ephrin-A binds to
Extracell part
Loose the fact that
Eph-A is a
Multi-domain
molecule
● New glyph: “Domain”; generalisation
of the current “Nucleic acid feature”.
● Domains can be associated in multi-domain
entities pool nodes, the location being carried
by the domains
● Allow complexes to be compartment-less
● Move content of complex from “decorations”
to bona fide entity pool nodes
Hybrid maps
Hybrid maps
Use Submaps: PD in AF
Submap in Process Descriptions
Main map in Activity Flows
Submap in Activity Flows
Main map in Process Descriptions
Use Submaps: AF in PD
KT KR
L
Lc
Allosteric regulations
Fluxes
Intensities and amounts
Creation, movement, destruction
Creation, movement, destruction
Is this a “pool” of identical entities?
Creation, movement, destruction
Are those different “states”
of the vesicle?
Creation, movement, destruction
Are those different compartments?
Creation, movement, destruction
Should those be “cloned”
Temporal order and Dynamics?
Multi-scale?
Topologies?
Data integration?
http://sbgn.org
Join the
conversation
sbgn-discuss@googlegroups.com
SBGN editors
Tobias Czauderna
Emek Demir
Ugur Dogrusoz
Robin Haw
Michael Hucka
Hiroaki Kitano
Nicolas Le Novère
Augustin Luna
Alexander Mazein
Huaiyu Mi
Stuart Moodie
Falk Schreiber
Anatoly Sorokin
Alice Villéger
Other main contributors
Mirit Aladjem
Frank Bergman
Sarah Boyd
Laurence Calzone
Mélanie Courtot
Tom Freeman
Akira Funahashi
Ralf Gauges
Peter Ghazal
Martijn van Iersel
Hideya Kawaji
Douglas Kell
Sohyoung Kim
Kurt Kohn
Fedor Kolpakov
Lu Li
Yukiko Matsuoka
Sven Sahle
Chris Sanders
Herbert Sauro
Esther Schmidt
Jacky Snoep
Vasundra Toure
Dagmar Waltemath
Steve Watterson
Katja Wegner
Sarale Wimalaratne
Guanming Wu
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BIOLOGISTS AND TOOL DEVELOPERS
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