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ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2024

Machine learning for microbiologists.

Francesco Asnicar, Andrew Maltez Thomas, Andrea Passerini, Levi Waldron, Nicola Segata

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Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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101citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

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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

5 authors.

Francesco Asnicar *Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3732-1468
Andrew Maltez Thomas *Department of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5789-3354
Andrea PasseriniDepartment of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
Levi WaldronDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. levi.waldron@sph.cuny.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-0694
Nicola SegataDepartment of Cellular, Computational and Integrative Biology, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. nicola.segata@unitn.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1583-5794

Funding

Exploiting Public Metagenomic Data to Uncover Cancer-Microbiome RelationshipsR01CA230551 · NCI · GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH POLICY · PI Levi Waldron · 2020 to 2026
$3.9M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA230551
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Machine learning is increasingly important in microbiology where it is used for tasks such as predicting antibiotic resistance and associating human microbiome features with complex host diseases. The applications in microbiology are quickly expanding and the machine learning tools frequently used in basic and clinical research range from classification and regression to clustering and dimensionality reduction. In this Review, we examine the main machine learning concepts, tasks and applications that are relevant for experimental and clinical microbiologists. We provide the minimal toolbox for a microbiologist to be able to understand, interpret and use machine learning in their experimental and translational activities.

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Machine LearningMicrobiotaHumans

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PMID37968359
PMCPMC11980903

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