VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Yonatan Ayalew Mekonnen
dblp:428/4363
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-7430-9428ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › network bioinformatics › biological network analysis
functional module identification |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | iModMix: integrative module analysis for multi-omics data · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
multi-omics data integration |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | iModMix: integrative module analysis for multi-omics data · Bioinform. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
sparse network estimation · 1.0graphical lasso · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | iModMix: integrative module analysis for multi-omics dataabstractSUMMARY: Integrative Module Analysis for Multi-omics Data (iModMix) is a biology-agnostic framework that enables the discovery of novel associations across any type of quantitative abundance data, including but not limited to transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. Instead of relying on pathway annotations or prior biological knowledge, iModMix constructs data-driven modules using graphical lasso to estimate sparse networks from omics features. These modules are summarized into eigenfeatures and correlated across datasets for horizontal integration, while preserving the distinct feature sets and interpretability of each omics type. iModMix operates directly on matrices containing expression or abundances for a wide range of features, including but not limited to genes, proteins, and metabolites. Because it does not rely on annotations (e.g., KEGG identifiers), it can seamlessly incorporate both identified and unidentified metabolites, addressing a key limitation of many existing metabolomics tools. iModMix is available as a user-friendly R Shiny application requiring no programming expertise (https://imodmix.moffitt.org), and as a Bioconductor R package for advanced users (https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/iModMix.html). The tool includes several public and in-house datasets to illustrate its utility in identifying novel multi-omics relationships in diverse biological contexts. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: iModMix is freely available from Bioconductor (https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/iModMix.html), and the example dataset package (iModMixData) is also available from Bioconductor (https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/ data/experiment/html/iModMixData.html). The R package source code and Docker are available from GitHub: https://github.com/biodatalab/iModMix. Shiny application can be accessed at: https://imodmix.moffitt.org. Isis Narváez-Bandera, Ashley Lui, Yonatan Ayalew Mekonnen, Vanessa Rubio, Augustine Takyi, Noah Sulman, Hayley D. Ackerman, Oscar E. Ospina, Guillermo Gonzalez-Calderon, Elsa R. Flores, Qian Li 0023, Ann Chen, Brooke L. Fridley, Paul A. Stewart |
Bioinform. | 3 |