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ReviewFEMS microbiology reviews2021

Machine learning and applications in microbiology.

Stephen J Goodswen, Joel L N Barratt, Paul J Kennedy, Alexa Kaufer, Larissa Calarco, John T Ellis

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Review in FEMS microbiology reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 93 papers.

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93citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

93 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Stephen J GoodswenSchool of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), 15 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6184-3157
Joel L N BarrattParasitic Diseases Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Paul J KennedySchool of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology and the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), 15 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia.
Alexa KauferSchool of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), 15 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia.
Larissa CalarcoSchool of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), 15 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia.
John T EllisSchool of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), 15 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To understand the intricacies of microorganisms at the molecular level requires making sense of copious volumes of data such that it may now be humanly impossible to detect insightful data patterns without an artificial intelligence application called machine learning. Applying machine learning to address biological problems is expected to grow at an unprecedented rate, yet it is perceived by the uninitiated as a mysterious and daunting entity entrusted to the domain of mathematicians and computer scientists. The aim of this review is to identify key points required to start the journey of becoming an effective machine learning practitioner. These key points are further reinforced with an evaluation of how machine learning has been applied so far in a broad scope of real-life microbiology examples. This includes predicting drug targets or vaccine candidates, diagnosing microorganisms causing infectious diseases, classifying drug resistance against antimicrobial medicines, predicting disease outbreaks and exploring microbial interactions. Our hope is to inspire microbiologists and other related researchers to join the emerging machine learning revolution.

Indexed as

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningclassificationK-means clusteringmachine learningmicrobiologysupervised learningunsupervised learning

Identifiers

PMID33724378
PMCPMC8498514

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