Multi-omics integration analysis: Tools and applications in environmental toxicology.

Environ Pollut

CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Sciences for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China. Electronic address:

Published: November 2024


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Nowadays, traditional single-omics study is not enough to explain the causality between molecular alterations and toxicity endpoints for environmental pollutants. With the development of high-throughput sequencing technology and high-resolution mass spectrometry technology, the integrative analysis of multi-omics has become an efficient strategy to understand holistic biological mechanisms and to uncover the regulation network in specific biological processes. This review summarized sample preparation methods, integration analysis tools and the application of multi-omics integration analyses in environmental toxicology field. Currently, omics methods have been widely applied being as the sensitivity of early biological response, especially for low-dose and long-term exposure to environmental pollutants. Integrative omics can reveal the overall changes of genes, proteins, and/or metabolites in the cells, tissues or organisms, which provide new insights into revealing the overall toxicity effects, screening the toxic targets, and exploring the underlying molecular mechanism of pollutants.

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