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Area of Science:

  • Microbiome analysis
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational biology

Background:

  • Big Data challenges in life sciences
  • CAMDA competitions foster innovation
  • 2023 Forensic Challenge: urban microbiome analysis

Purpose of the Study:

  • Identify city of origin from metagenomic samples
  • Analyze bacterial distribution and covariates
  • Validate microbiome classification methods

Main Methods:

  • Feature selection using negative binomial models
  • Supervised learning with 5-fold cross-validation
  • Support Vector Classifier and Neural Network models
  • Dirichlet regression for covariate analysis

Main Results:

  • Support Vector Classifier achieved 0.96 F1 score for taxonomic classification
  • Neural Network excelled with functional features (MIFASER)
  • Population increase linked to higher Escherichia abundance
  • Decreasing temperature associated with increased Klebsiella proportions

Conclusions:

  • Microbiome classification validated using taxonomic and functional features
  • Demographic and climatic factors influence urban microbial distribution
  • Open-source computational resources available for community adoption