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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2023

Gut Microbes Meet Machine Learning: The Next Step towards Advancing Our Understanding of the Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease.

Mauro Giuffrè, Rita Moretti, Claudio Tiribelli

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. AI in microbiome-related healthcare.Microbial biotechnology · 2024
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  13. The Gut-Liver-Brain Axis: From the Head to the Feet.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mauro GiuffrèDepartment of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34149 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9910-3514
Rita MorettiDepartment of Medical, Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, 34149 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9731-2697
Claudio TiribelliFondazione Italiana Fegato-Onlus, The Liver-Brain Unit "Rita Moretti", 34149 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6596-7595

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The human gut microbiome plays a crucial role in human health and has been a focus of increasing research in recent years. Omics-based methods, such as metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics, are commonly used to study the gut microbiome because they provide high-throughput and high-resolution data. The vast amount of data generated by these methods has led to the development of computational methods for data processing and analysis, with machine learning becoming a powerful and widely used tool in this field. Despite the promising results of machine learning-based approaches for analyzing the association between microbiota and disease, there are several unmet challenges. Small sample sizes, disproportionate label distribution, inconsistent experimental protocols, or a lack of access to relevant metadata can all contribute to a lack of reproducibility and translational application into everyday clinical practice. These pitfalls can lead to false models, resulting in misinterpretation biases for microbe-disease correlations. Recent efforts to address these challenges include the construction of human gut microbiota data repositories, improved data transparency guidelines, and more accessible machine learning frameworks; implementation of these efforts has facilitated a shift in the field from observational association studies to experimental causal inference and clinical intervention.

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Gastrointestinal MicrobiomeMicrobiotaHumansMachine LearningMetagenomicsReproducibility of Resultsartificial intelligencedysbiosiseubiosisgut microbiomegut microbiotahealthmachine learningmetagenomicsmicrobiomeomicssupervised learningunsupervised learning

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PMID36982303
PMCPMC10049444

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