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Exploring the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis for Mental Disorders with Knowledge Graphs

Authors
Ting Liu1, 2, Xueli Pan2, Xu Wang2, K. Anton Feenstra1, Jaap Heringa1, Zhisheng Huang2, *
1Center for Integrative Bioinformatics VU (IBIVU), Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) Group, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*Corresponding author. Email: z.huang@vu.nl
Corresponding Author
Zhisheng Huang
Received 1 July 2020, Accepted 23 November 2020, Available Online 15 December 2020.
DOI
10.2991/jaims.d.201208.001How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Microbiota-gut-brain axis; Gut microbiota; Neurotransmitter; Mental disorder; Knowledge graph; Biomedical ontology
Abstract

Gut microbiota has a significant influence on brain-related diseases through the communication routes of the gut-brain axis. Many species of gut microbiota produce a variety of neurotransmitters. In essence, the neurotransmitters are chemicals that influence mood, cognition, and behavior of the host. The relationships between gut microbiota and neurotransmitters has received much attention in medical and biomedical research. However, the integration of the various proposed neurotransmitter signal routes that underpin these relationships has not yet been studied well. To unlock the influence of gut microbiota on mental health via neurotransmitters, the microbiota-gut-brain (MGB) axis, we gather the decentralized results in the existing studies into a structured knowledge base. In this paper, we therefore propose a novel Microbiota Knowledge Graph based on a newly constructed knowledge graph for uncovering the potential associations among gut microbiota, neurotransmitters, and mental disorders which we refer to as MiKG. It includes many interfaces that link to well-known biomedical ontologies, e.g. UMLS, MeSH, KEGG, and SNOMED CT, and is extendable by linking to future ontologies to further exploit the relationships between gut microbiota and neurotransmitters. This paper present MiKG, an effective knowledge graph, that can be used to investigate the MGB axis using the relationships among gut microbiota, neurotransmitters, and mental disorders.

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Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Medical Sciences
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Publication Date
2020/12/15
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2666-1470
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10.2991/jaims.d.201208.001How to use a DOI?
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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press B.V.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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