# SportsXbiodata: A web platform for integrative analysis of exercise-induced gene and protein expression

**Authors:** Zheng Li, Zhexue Xu, Xiaolin Li

PMC · DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114403 · 2025-12-11

## TL;DR

SportsXbiodata is a free web platform that integrates multi-omics data and literature to study molecular changes caused by exercise.

## Contribution

The novelty lies in compiling and integrating multi-omics datasets and exercise-related literature within a systems biology framework.

## Key findings

- The platform includes 2,563 multi-omics datasets and 3,600 exercise-related publications.
- It supports modules for gene/protein/metabolite profiling, immune infiltration, and phenotype-gene correlation analysis.
- Users can freely access and download standardized datasets and analysis results.

## Abstract

Exercise can induce extensive molecular adaptations across multiple tissues; however, existing databases primarily focus on transcriptomic data and lack the ability to integrate multi-omics evidence and literature within a systems biology framework. To address this limitation, we developed SportsXbiodata, an open-access multi-omics integration platform that compiles 2,563 public multi-omics datasets and 3,600 exercise-related publications. The platform provides comprehensive functional modules for gene/protein/metabolite expression profiling, immune infiltration analysis, phenotype-gene correlation analysis, knowledge graph analysis, literature-based gene exploration, and exercise-drug homology analysis. It also supports data querying, visualization, and user-defined enrichment analysis for exercise-related datasets. SportsXbiodata is completely free and accessible without registration, allowing users to directly download standardized datasets and analysis results, thereby promoting transparency and reproducibility in scientific research.

•SportsXbiodata integrates 2,563 multi-omics datasets and 3,600 exercise-related studies•The platform provides comprehensive modules for expression, immune, phenotype and analyses•Visualization, GSEA, and multi-omics integration are supported

SportsXbiodata integrates 2,563 multi-omics datasets and 3,600 exercise-related studies

The platform provides comprehensive modules for expression, immune, phenotype and analyses

Visualization, GSEA, and multi-omics integration are supported

Health sciences

## Full-text entities

- **Genes:** Nfe2l2 (nuclear factor, erythroid derived 2, like 2) [NCBI Gene 18024] {aka Nrf2}, Nfkb1 (nuclear factor of kappa light polypeptide gene enhancer in B cells 1, p105) [NCBI Gene 18033] {aka NF-KB1, NF-kappaB, NF-kappaB1, p105, p50, p50/p105}, Atf3 (activating transcription factor 3) [NCBI Gene 11910] {aka LRG-21}, LGR5 (leucine rich repeat containing G protein-coupled receptor 5) [NCBI Gene 8549] {aka FEX, GPR49, GPR67, GRP49, HG38}, Bmp4 (bone morphogenetic protein 4) [NCBI Gene 12159] {aka Bmp-4, Bmp2b, Bmp2b-1, Bmp2b1}, ATF3 (activating transcription factor 3) [NCBI Gene 467]
- **Diseases:** obesity (MESH:D009765), musculoskeletal and motor system disorders (MESH:D009139), developmental and learning disorders (MESH:D007859), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (MESH:D029424), Metabolic diseases (MESH:D008659), osteoarthritis (MESH:D010003), neurological disorders (MESH:D009461), metabolic syndrome (MESH:D024821), sarcopenia (MESH:D055948), muscle atrophy (MESH:D009133), inflammation (MESH:D007249), Parkinson's disease (MESH:D010300), respiratory diseases (MESH:D012140), dyslipidemia (MESH:D050171), autism spectrum disorder (MESH:D000067877), diabetes (MESH:D003920), Vascular diseases (MESH:D014652), Alzheimer's disease (MESH:D000544), Mental and psychological disorders (MESH:D001523), anxiety (MESH:D001007), asthma (MESH:D001249), depression (MESH:D003866), heart failure (MESH:D006333), coronary artery disease (MESH:D003324), bipolar disorder (MESH:D001714), multiple sclerosis (MESH:D009103), pulmonary hypertension (MESH:D006976), cognitive impairment (MESH:D003072), hypertension (MESH:D006973), cardiovascular diseases (MESH:D002318), osteoporosis (MESH:D010024)
- **Chemicals:** Metformin (MESH:D008687), Cerivastatin (MESH:C086276), ATP (MESH:D000255), NADH (MESH:D009243), lrhol (-), AICAR (MESH:C031143)
- **Species:** Mus musculus (house mouse, species) [taxon 10090], Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]
- **Cell lines:** LM22 — Homo sapiens (Human), Astrocytoma, Cancer cell line (CVCL_A1IU), C57BL/6J — Mus musculus (Mouse), Transformed cell line (CVCL_C0MW)

## Figures

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC12803929