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ArticleGenome biology2017

MetaGen: reference-free learning with multiple metagenomic samples.

Xin Xing, Jun S Liu, Wenxuan Zhong

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Article in Genome biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Xin XingDepartment of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, GA, USA.
Jun S LiuDepartment of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, 02138, MA, USA.
Wenxuan ZhongDepartment of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, GA, USA. wenxuan@uga.edu.

Funding

Novel statistical tools for cell line specific epigenetic analysisR01GM113242 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI ZHONG, WENXUAN · 2014 to 2017
$1.4M
Deciphering the Regulatory Role of Small RNAs on Alternative Splicing R01GM122080 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI MA, PING · 2016 to 2019
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM113242NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM122080
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A major goal of metagenomics is to identify and study the entire collection of microbial species in a set of targeted samples. We describe a statistical metagenomic algorithm that simultaneously identifies microbial species and estimates their abundances without using reference genomes. As a trade-off, we require multiple metagenomic samples, usually ≥10 samples, to get highly accurate binning results. Compared to reference-free methods based primarily on k-mer distributions or coverage information, the proposed approach achieves a higher species binning accuracy and is particularly powerful when sequencing coverage is low. We demonstrated the performance of this new method through both simulation and real metagenomic studies. The MetaGen software is available at https://github.com/BioAlgs/MetaGen .

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Bayes TheoremDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2HumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesMetagenomicsObesitySoftwareBinningMetagenomicsMixture modelMultinomialUnsupervised learning

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PMID28974263
PMCPMC5627425

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