Predicting microbiomes through a deep latent space
Author(s) -
Beatriz García-Jiménez,
J. A. Muñoz,
Sara Cabello,
Joaquı́n Medina,
Mark D. Wilkinson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa971
Subject(s) - microbiome , computer science , deep learning , artificial intelligence , composition (language) , machine learning , biology , bioinformatics , linguistics , philosophy
Microbial communities influence their environment by modifying the availability of compounds, such as nutrients or chemical elicitors. Knowing the microbial composition of a site is therefore relevant to improve productivity or health. However, sequencing facilities are not always available, or may be prohibitively expensive in some cases. Thus, it would be desirable to computationally predict the microbial composition from more accessible, easily-measured features.
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