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Learning representations of microbe–metabolite interactions

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Morton, James T., Aksenov, Alexander A., Nothias, Louis Felix, Foulds, James R., Quinn, Robert A., Badri, Michelle H., Swenson, Tami L., Van Goethem, Marc W., Northen, Trent R., Vazquez-Baeza, Yoshiki, Wang, Mingxun, Bokulich, Nicholas A., Watters, Aaron, Song, Se Jin, Bonneau, Richard, Dorrestein, Pieter C., Knight, Rob·2019·Nature Methods

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Integrating multiomics datasets is critical for microbiome research; however, inferring interactions across omics datasets has multiple statistical challenges. We solve this problem by using neural networks (https://github.com/biocore/mmvec) to estimate the conditional probability that each molecule is present given the presence of a specific microorganism. We show with known environmental (desert soil biocrust wetting) and clinical (cystic fibrosis lung) examples, our ability to recover microbe–metabolite relationships, and demonstrate how the method can discover relationships between microbially produced metabolites and inflammatory bowel disease. mmvec, a neural-network-based algorithm, uses paired multiomics data (microbial sequence counts and metabolite abundances) to compute the conditional probability of observing a metabolite in the presence of a specific microorganism.

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Morton, J. T., Aksenov, A. A., Nothias, L. F., Foulds, J. R., Quinn, R. A., Badri, M. H., Swenson, T. L., Van Goethem, M. W., Northen, T. R., Vazquez-Baeza, Y., Wang, M., Bokulich, N. A., Watters, A., Song, S. J., Bonneau, R., Dorrestein, P. C., & Knight, R.
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Nature Methods
Published
2019-11-04
Volume
16
Issue
12
Pages
1306-1314
ISSN
  • 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
  • 1548-7105
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W2987653794
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299
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58
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9.60
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journal article
Language
en
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Morton, J. T., Aksenov, A. A., Nothias, L. F., Foulds, J. R., Quinn, R. A., Badri, M. H., Swenson, T. L., Van Goethem, M. W., Northen, T. R., Vazquez-Baeza, Y., Wang, M., Bokulich, N. A., Watters, A., Song, S. J., Bonneau, R., Dorrestein, P. C., & Knight, R. (2019). Learning representations of microbe–metabolite interactions. Nature Methods. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0616-3

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