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ArticleGenomics, proteomics & bioinformatics2020

MicroPhenoDB Associates Metagenomic Data with Pathogenic Microbes, Microbial Core Genes, and Human Disease Phenotypes.

Guocai Yao, Wenliang Zhang, Minglei Yang, Huan Yang, Jianbo Wang, Haiyue Zhang, Lai Wei, Zhi Xie, Weizhong Li

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Article in Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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Guocai YaoZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Wenliang ZhangZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Minglei YangZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Huan YangZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Jianbo WangZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Haiyue ZhangZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China.
Lai WeiState Key Lab of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 500060, China.
Zhi XieCenter for Precision Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; State Key Lab of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 500060, China.
Weizhong LiZhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; Center for Precision Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China; Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control of Ministry of Education, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China. Electronic address: liweizhong@mail.sysu.edu.cn.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbes play important roles in human health and disease. The interaction between microbes and hosts is a reciprocal relationship, which remains largely under-explored. Current computational resources lack manually and consistently curated data to connect metagenomic data to pathogenic microbes, microbial core genes, and disease phenotypes. We developed the MicroPhenoDB database by manually curating and consistently integrating microbe-disease association data. MicroPhenoDB provides 5677 non-redundant associations between 1781 microbes and 542 human disease phenotypes across more than 22 human body sites. MicroPhenoDB also provides 696,934 relationships between 27,277 unique clade-specific core genes and 685 microbes. Disease phenotypes are classified and described using the Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO). A refined score model was developed to prioritize the associations based on evidential metrics. The sequence search option in MicroPhenoDB enables rapid identification of existing pathogenic microbes in samples without running the usual metagenomic data processing and assembly. MicroPhenoDB offers data browsing, searching, and visualization through user-friendly web interfaces and web service application programming interfaces. MicroPhenoDB is the first database platform to detail the relationships between pathogenic microbes, core genes, and disease phenotypes. It will accelerate metagenomic data analysis and assist studies in decoding microbes related to human diseases. MicroPhenoDB is available through http://www.liwzlab.cn/microphenodb and http://lilab2.sysu.edu.cn/microphenodb.

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MetagenomeMetagenomicsGenes, MicrobialHumansPhenotypeSoftwareCOVID-19Disease phenotypesMetagenomic dataMicrobe-disease associationPathogenic microbes

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PMCPMC8377004

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