对ESKAPE细菌的泛基组分析:代表性不足可能会影响机器学习模型
Jeesu Lee1, Branden Hunter2, Hyunjin Shim1,2
1Center for Biosystems and Biotech Data Science, Ghent University Global Campus, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Frontiers in molecular biosciences
|July 8, 2024
概括
公共可用的菌体基因组,特别是那些感染ESKAPE病原体的基因组,显著不足. 这种遗传多样性的差距限制了对菌体作用的理解,并偏差了计算模型,可能阻碍了菌体治疗的发展.
科学领域:
- 微生物学和病毒学
- 生物信息学和计算生物学
- 基因组学和遗传多样性
背景情况:
- 菌体 (菌体) 是最丰富的生物实体,但它们的遗传多样性被低估了.
- 测序技术和医学相关性研究的局限性导致了这种代表性不足.
- 低估的菌体多样性在生态角色和偏差计算模型中创造了知识差距.
研究的目的:
- 在公共数据库中量化感染高优先级ESKAPE病原体的菌体基因组的不足.
- 分析这些ESKAPE菌体之间的遗传多样性和关系.
- 评估这种代表性不足对菌体治疗和计算建模的影响.
主要方法:
- 对公开可用的菌体基因组进行分析,以ESKAPE病原体为目标.
- 泛基因组分析以确定相关菌体之间共享的核心基因.
- 全基因组的比较和聚类,以评估核酸水平的相关性.
- 对独特的菌体和抗菌素蛋白质稀缺性的评估.
主要成果:
- 证实了ESKAPE菌体基因组和蛋白质在公共数据库中的显著不足.
- 泛基因组分析显示,感染同一ESKAPE宿主的菌体之间广泛共享核心基因.
- 基因组聚类表明在研究的ESKAPE菌体中,核酸水平的多样性有限.
- 观察到独特的菌体和蛋白质稀缺,它们对ESKAPE病原体具有抗菌活性.
结论:
- 感染ESKAPE病原体的菌体的遗传多样性在公共存储库中被严重低估.
- 这种缺乏多样性可能会阻碍菌体治疗的发展和应用.
- 由于代表性不足,偏差的生物数据集可能导致数据驱动的计算模型的结果不准确.
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