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¹School of Computing, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States of America.

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This study identifies potential biomarkers for detecting environmental toxins like TNT and RDX. Machine learning successfully classified earthworm gene expression data, aiding in toxicity assessment.

Area of Science:

Environmental Toxicology
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology

Background:

Environmental risk assessment requires accurate diagnostic tools for chemical contaminants.
Explosive compounds like trinitrotoluene (TNT) and cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) are associated with various toxicological effects.
Microarray experiments are crucial for discovering novel biomarkers for toxicity evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and apply a machine learning pipeline for identifying gene expression biomarkers in earthworms exposed to TNT and RDX.
To construct classifier models capable of distinguishing between control, TNT-treated, and RDX-treated earthworm samples.
To refine a subset of classifier genes that can serve as reliable biomarkers for chemical toxicity.

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Development of an earthworm microarray with 15,208 unique oligo probes.

Analysis of gene expression data from 248 earthworms using a machine learning pipeline.

Application of univariate statistics, decision trees, multiclass support vector machine (MC-SVM), and K-mean clustering for feature selection and classification.

Main Results:

Identified 869 differentially expressed genes in response to TNT or RDX exposure.
Selected subsets of 354, 39, and 30 classifier genes using different machine learning algorithms.
Achieved classification accuracy of 83.5% with MC-SVM and 56.9% with K-mean clustering using a refined subset of 58 genes.

Conclusions:

Machine learning effectively identifies and optimizes small subsets of classifier/biomarker genes from high-dimensional microarray data.
The developed approach can generate classification models with acceptable precision for multiple exposure classes.
This study provides a foundation for using gene expression profiling and machine learning in environmental chemical risk assessment.