"Towards Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine" Distinguished Lecture Series Department of Computer Science and Engineering UC San Diego October 15, 2012.

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"Towards Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine" Distinguished Lecture Series Department of Computer Science and Engineering UC San Diego October 15, 2012 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 Calit2 has, for over a decade, had a driving vision that healthcare is being transformed into “digitally enabled genomic medicine.” The global market for cell phones is driving down the cost of components needed for sensing many aspects of our body. 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 molecular and blood cell types in my blood and dozens of molecular and microbial variables in my stool. Through saliva I have obtained 1 million single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in my human DNA. My gut microbiome has been metagenomically sequenced, yielding 25 billion DNA bases. I will show how one can discover emerging disease states before they develop serious symptoms by graphing time series of these key variables and also will illustrate the power of multi-variant analysis across all these internal variables. Imagining a software system that can handle millions to billions of data points per person across billions of people leads to new challenges in computer science and engineering.

Calit2 Has Been Had a Vision of “the Digital Transformation of Health” for a Decade Next Step—Putting 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 4 July/August 2011 February 2012

I Arrived in La Jolla in 2000 After 20 Years in the Midwest and Decided to Move Against the Obesity Trend 2000 I Reversed My Body’s Decline By Altering My Nutrition and Exercise Age Age See the full story at:

Wireless Monitoring Helps Drive Exercise Goals

FitBit Compares Your Steps to Population of Your Age and Sex

Calit2 is Using Several Heart Rate Wireless Monitors to Analyze Heart Rate Variability

Quantifying My Sleep Pattern Using a Zeo - Surprisingly About Half My Sleep is REM! 60 Year Old Male REM is Normally 20% of Sleep Mine is Between 45-65% of Sleep Zeo has database of ~10,000 users, over 200,000 nights

CitiSense –UCSD NSF Grant for Fine-Grained Environmental 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

Challenge-Develop Standards to Enable MashUps of Personal Sensor Data Across Private Clouds Lose It- Calories Ingested Withing/iPhone- Blood Pressure Zeo-Sleep Body Media- Calories Burned Azumio-Heart Rate EM Wave PC- Stress

From Measuring Macro-Variables to Measuring Your Internal Variables

Challenge: Creating a Population-Wide Software System: From One to Billions of Data Points Defining Me 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

I Track 100 Variables in Blood Tests With Blood Samples Taken Monthly to Annually Electrolytes –Sodium, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Boron, Chlorine, CO 2 Micronutrients –Arsenic, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Manganese, Molybdenum, Selenium, Zinc Blood Sugar Cycle –Glucose, Insulin, A1C Hemoglobin Cardio Risk –Complex Reactive Protein –Homocysteine Kidneys –Bun, Creatinine, Uric Acid Protein –Total Protein, Albumin, Globulin Liver –GGTP, SGOT, SGPT, LDH, Total Direct Bilirubin, Alkaline Phosphatase Thyroid –T3 Uptake, T4, Free Thyroxine Index, FT4, 2 nd Gen TSH Blood Cells –Complete Blood Cell Count –Red Blood Cell Subtypes –White Blood Cell Subtypes Cancer Screen –CEA, Total PSA, % Free PSA –CA-19-9 Vitamins & Antioxidant Screen –Vit D, E; Selenium, ALA, coQ10, Glutathione, Total Antioxidant Fn. Only One of These Was Far Out of Normal Range

My Blood Measurements Revealed Chronic Inflammation Episodic Peaks in Inflammation Followed by Spontaneous Drop 15x 27x Normal Range CRP < 1 Antibiotics Complex Reactive Protein (CRP) is a Blood Biomarker for Detecting Presence of Inflammation 5x

By Quantifying Stool Measurements Over Time I Discovered Source of Inflammation Was Likely in Colon Normal Range <7.3 µg/mL 124x Upper Limit Typical Lactoferrin Value for Active IBD Lactoferrin is a Sensitive and Specific Biomarker for Detecting Presence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Stool Samples Analyzed by

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

Interactive Visualization and 3D Hard Copy from LS MRI Data Research: Calit2 FutureHealth Team

Challenge: Is it Possible for Software to Intercompare Digital Human Bodies? Videos of Me Giving Tours of My Insides: – – Photo & DeskVOX Software Courtesy of Jurgen Schulze, Calit2

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!

Putting Multiple Immunological Biomarker Time Series Together, Reveals Major Immune Dysfunction Green : Inside Range Orange: 1-10x Over Red: x Over Purple: >100x Over Source: Calit2 Future Health Expedition Team

I Wondered if Crohn’s 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 ~ 1 Million Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) Make Up About 90% of All Human Genetic Variation

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

June 8, 2012June 14, 2012 Intense Scientific Research is Underway on Understanding the Human Microbiome

Determining My Gut Microbes and Their Time Variation 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!

We Used Weizhong Li Group’s 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 SDSC’s Gordon Data-Intensive Supercomputer to Analyze JCVI Sequences of LS Gut Microbiome 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

Metagenomic Sequencing of Gut Bacteria: Phyla Distribution Detects Different IBD Types Crohn’s Ulcerative Colitis Healthy LS Analysis: Weizhong Li & Sitao Wu, UCSD

Almost All Abundant Species (≥1%) in Healthy Subjects Are Severely Depleted in LS Gut 1/35 1/15 1/9 1/6 1/18 1/3 1/8 1/62 1/31/7 1/15 1/22 1/25 1/ /39 1/12 Numbers Over Bars Represent Ratio of LS to Healthy Abundance Analysis: LS, Weizhong Li & Sitao Wu, UCSD

LS Abundant Microbe Species (≥1%) Are Dominated by Rare Species in Healthy Subjects 214x 58x 254x 43x 17x2x 1/3x 1/8x 2x 1/3x Numbers Over Bars Represent Ratio of LS to Healthy Abundance 1x Analysis: LS, Weizhong Li & Sitao Wu, UCSD

Microbial Metagenomics Can Diagnose Disease States From SNPs Associated with CD Mutation in Interleukin-23 Receptor Gene—80% Higher Risk of Pro-inflammatory Immune Response 2009 IBD Patients Harbored, on Average, 25% Fewer Microbial Genes than the Individuals Not Suffering from IBD.

Our Principal Component Analysis Based On Microbial Species Abundance Analysis: Weizhong Li & Sitao Wu, UCSD

Analysis of Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COGs) - Gene Family Distribution in LS Gut Microbiome Analysis: Weizhong Li & Sitao Wu, UCSD

Where I Believe We are Headed: Predictive, Personalized, Preventive, & Participatory Medicine Using a “LifeChip” Quantify ~2500 Blood Proteins, 50 Each from 50 Organs or Cell Types from a Single Drop of Blood To Create a Time Series I am Leroy Hood’s Lab Rat!

Invited Paper for Focus Issue of Biotechnology Journal, Edited by Profs. Leroy Hood and Charles Auffray. _Supporting_Info_published.pdf _LS_published_article.pdf Download Pdfs from my Portal:

Integrative Personal Omics Profiling: 1000x the Data I Have Taken 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

Creating a Big Data Freeway System: NSF Has Awarded Optical Switch Phil Papadopoulos, SDSC, Calit2, PI

Arista Enables SDSC’s Massive Parallel 10G Switched Data Analysis Resource

New NIH Center for Biomedical Computing: integrating Data for Analysis, Anonymization, and SHaring (iDASH) funded by NIH U54HL Data Exported for Computation Elsewhere –Users download data from iDASH Computation Comes to the Data –Users access data in iDASH –Users upload algorithms into iDASH iDASH Exportable Cyberinfrastructure –Users download infrastructure – Private Cloud at SD Supercomputer Center Medical Center Data Hosting HIPAA certified facility Source: Lucila Ohno-Machado, UCSD SOM

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

Integrating Systems Biology Data: Cytoscape OPEN SOURCE Java Platform for Integration of Systems Biology Data Layout and Query of Interaction Networks (Physical And Genetic) Visual and Programmatic Integration of Molecular State Data (Attributes) 41

Cytoscape Genetic Networks 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

The Stanford/JCVI Paper Was Hailed as a Historic Breakthrough

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