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GrEBI (Graphs@EBI)

HPC pipeline to aggregate knowledge graphs from EMBL-EBI resources, the MONARCH Initiative KG, ROBOKOP, Ubergraph, and other sources into giant (multi-terabyte) transient Neo4j+Solr databases for querying.

Outputs

The resulting transient databases can be downloaded from https://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/spot/kg/ebi/

Name Description # Nodes # Edges Neo4j DB size
ebi_monarch_xspecies All datasources with cross-species phenotype matches merged ~130m ~850m ~900 GB
ebi_monarch All datasources with cross-species phenotype matches separated
impc_x_gwas Limited to data from IMPC, GWAS Catalog, and related ontologies and mappings ~30m ~184m

Note that the purpose of this pipeline is not to supply another knowledge graph, but to facilitate querying and analysis across existing ones. Consequently the above databases should be considered temporary and are subject to be removed and/or replaced with new ones without warning.

Mapping sets used

The following mapping tables are loaded:

In all of the currently configured outputs, skos:exactMatch mappings cause clique merging. In ebi_monarch_xspecies, semapv:crossSpeciesExactMatch also causes clique merging (so e.g. corresponding HP and MP terms will share a graph node). As this is not always desirable, a separate graph ebi_monarch is also provided where semapv:crossSpeciesExactMatch mappings are represented as edges.

Full list of datasources

Datasource Loaded from
IMPC EBI
GWAS Catalog EBI
OLS EBI
OpenTargets EBI
Metabolights EBI
ChEMBL EBI
Reactome EBI, MONARCH
BGee MONARCH
BioGrid MONARCH
Gene Ontology (GO) Annotation Database MONARCH
HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee) MONARCH
Human Phenotype Ontology Annotations (HPOA) MONARCH
NCBI Gene MONARCH
PHENIO MONARCH
PomBase MONARCH
ZFIN MONARCH
MedGen MONARCH
Protein ANalysis THrough Evolutionary Relationships (PANTHER) MONARCH, ROBOKOP
STRING MONARCH, ROBOKOP
Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) MONARCH, ROBOKOP
Alliance of Genome Resources MONARCH, ROBOKOP
BINDING ROBOKOP
CAM KG ROBOKOP
The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD) ROBOKOP
Drug Central ROBOKOP
The Alliance of Genome Resources ROBOKOP
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) portal ROBOKOP
Guide to Pharmacology database (GtoPdb) ROBOKOP
Hetionet ROBOKOP
HMDB ROBOKOP
Human GOA ROBOKOP
Integrated Clinical and Environmental Exposures Service (ICEES) KG ROBOKOP
IntAct ROBOKOP
Protein ANalysis THrough Evolutionary Relationships (PANTHER) ROBOKOP
Pharos ROBOKOP
STRING ROBOKOP
Text Mining Provider KG ROBOKOP
Viral Proteome ROBOKOP
AOPWiki AOPWikiRDF
Ubergraph
MeSH
Human Reference Atlas KG

Implementation

The pipeline is implemented as Rust programs with simple CLIs, orchestrated with Nextflow. Input KGs are represented in a variety of formats including KGX, RDF, and JSONL files. After loading, a simple "bruteforce" integration strategy is applied:

  • All strings that begin with any IRI or CURIE prefix from the Bioregistry are canonicalised to the standard CURIE form
  • All property values that are the identifier of another node in the graph become edges
  • Cliques of equivalent nodes are merged into single nodes
  • Cliques of equivalent properties are merged into single properties (and for ontology-defined properties, the qualified safe labels are used)

The primary output of the pipeline is a property graph for Neo4j. The nodes and edges are also loaded into Solr for full-text search and sqlite for id->compressed object resolution.