MultiScale AI for SingleCell-Based Precision Medicine (AI4scMED)
Coordinators : Franck Picard
Coordinating institution : CNRS
AI, single cell, simulation, data integration
Cell-based precision medicine has the potential to revolutionize healthcare. To reach its full potential, we need to better understand and integrate the variability and the multiscale facets of most diseases. Single-cell (sc) multi-omics has the unique capacity to provide high-throughput molecular portraits of individual cells, and to identify predictive biomarkers of a disease trajectory. Understanding this intrinsic complexity and its translation into better treatment requires the exploitation of heterogeneous information, which can be achieved only through new AI-based breakthroughs that will unravel the multiscale processes governing cell trajectories towards disease.
Our consortium will tackle new methodological challenges to bridge the gap between sc data and the advent of personalized targeted treatments. Sc-data can resolve the confounding effects of distinct cell types by providing measures of genome-wide features at the level of individual cells. When integrated, sc-multi-omics data have already demonstrated the multifacets and heterogeneity of diseases. In addition, combined with image analysis, sc-molecular readouts can be integrated at the cellular scale to investigate the compartmentation and spatialization of signaling events. To address the complexity of the human body and to combine genomic information with other assays, we will develop new AI-based methods to handle, integrate, analyze, and visualize this multiscale complexity that characterizes diseases. These new developments will be based on cutting-edge advances in AI-based data analysis to decipher the complex geometry of sc-genomic datasets.
Contributions of sc-genomics to health requires multiscale models to infer causal mechanisms governing the evolution towards disease at different levels. Our developments will account for the specific challenges presented by sc multi-omics (dimensionality, scarcity). Moreover, they typically consist of observational datawithout systematic perturbations, which makes the identification of causal effects challenging. To meet this challenge, we will combine causal/logical/stochastic modeling for the integration of heterogeneous data.
Our models will integrate the different temporal scales of the dynamical processes that govern gene activity, and will account for biophysical priors to reduce the complexity of model inference. We will produce network inference methods for the characterization of the molecular mechanisms underlying the phenotypic behaviors of a clinical sample. Our objective is to couple symbolic AI with machine learning for an efficient characterization of bestpredictive executable models. Our methods will allow the identification of molecular targets for controlling the so-called pathological state. The inferred networks will then be investigated to identify genes having a key role in the analyzed clinical samples or to predict the impact of therapeutic interventions in a clinical sample.
Finally, a challenge for precision medicine consists in integrating the different levels of variability that govern cell decision making, a multiscale dynamical process that associates signaling networks with cell trajectory and a tissue-level organization. A paradigm shift must be realized to consider disease as a stochastic state that could be predicted, perturbed, and controlled. Predictive capability to describe any trajectory towards disease requires the coupling of intracellular and biochemical dynamics with cell population dynamics.
Meeting this challenge requires reconciling different mathematical formalisms and integrating heterogeneous biological knowledge to represent in a common framework biological processes described on very contrasting spatial and temporal scales. Our ambition is to build predictive executable models, ultimately digital twins, to provide data-driven solutions for the implementation of targeted personalized treatments based on the control of cell fate decision.
Laboratory or department, team | Supervisors |
LBMC, UMR 5239/UMR1210 | CNRS, Inserm, Lyon 1 University, ENS |
Institut Camille Jordan, UMR 5208, Eq Inria Dracula | CNRS, Inria, Lyon 1 University, INSA Lyon, Ecole Centrale Lyon, St Etienne Université, |
BPH – U 1219 – Eq SISTM | Inserm, Inria, Bordeaux University, |
LIRIS, UMR 5205, Eq Inria Beagle | Inria, CNRS, Lyon 1 Université, INSA Lyon, Ecole Centrale Lyon |
LJP – Labo Jean Perrin – UMR 8237 | CNRS, Sorbonne University, |
LIS – UMR 7020
IBDM – UMR 7288 |
CNRS, Toulon University , Aix-Marseille University
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IECL – UMR 7502 | CNRS, Inria, Lorraine University |
I2M – UMR 7373, Eq MABioS | CNRS, Inria, AMU, Ecole Centrale Marseille |
MAP5 – UMR 8145, Eq MAS | CNRS, Paris Cité University |
LBMC – UMR 5239/UMR1210 | CNRS, Lyon 1 University, ENS, Inserm
HCL partner |
Centre Inria Sophia Antipolis, Eq DataShape | Inria, Côte d’Azur University |
LPENS – UMR 8023 | ENS, PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne University, Paris Cité University |
PCC Curie – UMR 168 | Institut Curie, Sorbonne University, CNRS, Paris Sciences & Lettres University partner |
LaBRI – UMR 5800 | CNRS, Bordeaux University, INP
Inria partner
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TIMC – UMR 5525 | CNRS, Grenoble Alpes University, Vetagro Sup, Grenoble INP partner
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Institut montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck – UMR 5149 | Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Inria |
IMT Toulouse – UMR 5219 | CNRS, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier, INSA Toulouse, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole , INU Champollion |
IBENS UMR 8197 | ENS, Paris Sciences & Lettres, Inserm, CNRS |
MUSCA – UMR CNRS 7247, UR 1404 INRAE | Inria, CNRS, INRAE |
Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions
UMR 7598 |
Sorbonne University, Paris Diderot University, CNRS |