VIGET: A web portal for study of vaccine-induced host responses based on Reactome pathways and ImmPort data

Timothy Brunson, Nasim Sanati, Anthony Huffman, Anna Maria Masci, Jie Zheng, Michael F. Cooke, Patrick Conley, Yongqun He, Guanming Wu

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Abstract

Host responses to vaccines are complex but important to investigate. To facilitate the study, we have developed a tool called Vaccine Induced Gene Expression Analysis Tool (VIGET), with the aim to provide an interactive online tool for users to efficiently and robustly analyze the host immune response gene expression data collected in the ImmPort/GEO databases. VIGET allows users to select vaccines, choose ImmPort studies, set up analysis models by choosing confounding variables and two groups of samples having different vaccination times, and then perform differential expression analysis to select genes for pathway enrichment analysis and functional interaction network construction using the Reactome’s web services. VIGET provides features for users to compare results from two analyses, facilitating comparative response analysis across different demographic groups. VIGET uses the Vaccine Ontology (VO) to classify various types of vaccines such as live or inactivated flu vaccines, yellow fever vaccines, etc. To showcase the utilities of VIGET, we conducted a longitudinal analysis of immune responses to yellow fever vaccines and found an intriguing complex activity response pattern of pathways in the immune system annotated in Reactome, demonstrating that VIGET is a valuable web portal that supports effective vaccine response studies using Reactome pathways and ImmPort data.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number1141030
JournalFrontiers in immunology
Volume14
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Keywords

  • biological pathways
  • data visualization
  • differential gene expression
  • pathway analysis
  • reactome
  • vaccination response
  • web application
  • yellow fever vaccines

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Immunology and Allergy
  • Immunology

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