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We developed a novel Metabolic Allele Classifier (MAC) to predict antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from whole-genome sequencing data. MAC offers biochemical interpretations, complementing existing machine learning models for genetic determinant discovery.

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Area of Science:

Genomics
Systems Biology
Computational Biology

Background:

Machine learning classifiers applied to whole-genome sequencing data identify genetic determinants of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Current methods often lack causal interpretation, limiting mechanistic understanding of AMR development.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce the Metabolic Allele Classifier (MAC), a novel machine learning approach integrating metabolic modeling with genetic data.
To enable causal interpretation of genotype-phenotype relationships in antimicrobial resistance.

Main Methods:

Developed MAC, a classifier using flux balance analysis to estimate allele biochemical effects.
Applied MAC to a dataset of 1595 drug-tested Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains.
Evaluated MAC's predictive accuracy against mechanism-agnostic models.

Main Results:

MAC predicts AMR phenotypes with accuracy comparable to existing models (e.g., isoniazid AUC = 0.93).
MAC provides biochemical interpretations of the genotype-phenotype map for AMR.
Analysis of MAC for three antibiotics recapitulates known AMR mechanisms and suggests novel biochemical bases for allele-driven resistance.

Conclusions:

Metabolic model-based classifiers like MAC can extend flux balance analysis for accurate sequence classification.
This approach contributes mechanistic insights to genome-wide association studies (GWAS), moving beyond mechanism-agnostic findings.