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  • Biotechnology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Microbial Physiology

Background:

  • Microbioreactor (MBR) devices generate extensive online process data for microbial phenotyping and bioprocess characterization.
  • Manual analysis of large, parallelized MBR datasets is time-consuming and challenging.
  • Existing workflows require tedious data parsing and preprocessing, hindering rapid interpretation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present the Python package bletl for streamlined analysis of MBR data.
  • To enable robust data analysis and machine learning application without extensive preprocessing.
  • To introduce a novel method for quantifying time-variable specific growth rates and detecting metabolic shifts.

Main Methods:

  • Development and application of the Python package bletl to read and process raw MBR result files.
  • Integration with Python scientific computing ecosystem for data analysis, visualization, and derivative calculations.
  • Implementation of unsupervised switchpoint detection using Student-t distributed random walks for growth rate quantification.
  • Application of time series feature extraction and machine learning (e.g., t-SNE) for phenotype characterization.

Main Results:

  • bletl facilitates direct access to MBR data within Python for analysis.
  • Interactive visualizations and spline-based derivative calculations are readily achievable.
  • A new method accurately quantifies time-variable specific growth rates with Bayesian uncertainty.
  • Unsupervised detection of metabolic switch-points and automated phenotype characterization using machine learning were demonstrated.

Conclusions:

  • The bletl package significantly simplifies and enhances the analysis of MBR data.
  • The developed growth rate quantification method offers unbiased and automated detection of metabolic changes.
  • Machine learning techniques applied to MBR data enable effective unsupervised microbial phenotype characterization.