The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) and international astronaut biobank.

TitleThe Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) and international astronaut biobank.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2024
AuthorsOverbey EG, Kim JK, Tierney BT, Park J, Houerbi N, Lucaci AG, Medina SGarcia, Damle N, Najjar D, Grigorev K et al.
JournalNature
Date Published2024 Jun 11
ISSN1476-4687
Abstract

Spaceflight induces molecular, cellular, and physiological shifts in astronauts and poses myriad biomedical challenges to the human body, which are becoming increasingly relevant as more humans venture into space1-6. Yet, current frameworks for aerospace medicine are nascent and lag far behind advancements in precision medicine on Earth, underscoring the need for rapid development of space medicine databases, tools, and protocols. Here, we present the Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA), an integrated data and sample repository for clinical, cellular, and multi-omic research profiles from a diverse range of missions, including the NASA Twins Study7, JAXA CFE study8,9, SpaceX Inspiration4 crew10-12, plus Axiom and Polaris. The SOMA resource represents a >10-fold increase in publicly available human space omics data, with matched samples available from the Cornell Aerospace Medicine Biobank. The Atlas includes extensive molecular and physiological profiles encompassing genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and microbiome data sets, which reveal some consistent features across missions, including cytokine shifts, telomere elongation, and gene expression changes, as well as mission-specific molecular responses and links to orthologous, tissue-specific murine data sets. Leveraging the datasets, tools, and resources in SOMA can help accelerate precision aerospace medicine, bringing needed health monitoring, risk mitigation, and countermeasures data for upcoming lunar, Mars, and exploration-class missions.

DOI10.1038/s41586-024-07639-y
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38862028?dopt=Abstract

Alternate JournalNature
PubMed ID38862028

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