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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2025

Minimal gene signatures enable high-accuracy prediction of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Nabia Shahreen, Syed Ahsan Shahid, Mahfuze Subhani, Adil Al-Siyabi, Rajib Saha

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Article in NPJ systems biology and applications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. [Advances in the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Microbiological Testing].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2026
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  3. Antibiotic resistance inFrontiers in microbiology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Nabia Shahreen *Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
Syed Ahsan Shahid *Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Birkat Al-Mouz, Nizwa, Oman.
Mahfuze Subhani *School of Computing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
Adil Al-SiyabiNatural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Birkat Al-Mouz, Nizwa, Oman. aalsiyabi@unizwa.edu.om.
Rajib SahaDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA. rsaha2@unl.edu.

Funding

A Predictive Modeling Framework to Dissect the Dynamic Immunometabolic Responses to Pathogenic infection and the Kinetic Reprogramming of Metabolism in Cancer Cell SystemR35GM143009 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI SAHA, RAJIB · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
Nebraska Ethanol Board Award 26-1106-0157-001NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM143009NIH HHS 5R35GM143009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa poses a critical global health challenge, with current diagnostics relying on slow, culture-based methods. Here, we present a ML framework leveraging transcriptomic data to predict antibiotic resistance with high accuracy. We applied a genetic algorithm to 414 clinical isolates to identify minimal, highly predictive gene sets (~35-40 genes) distinguishing resistant from susceptible strains for meropenem, ciprofloxacin, tobramycin, and ceftazidime. Automated ML classifiers trained on these sets achieved accuracies of 96-99% on test data (F1 scores: 0.93-0.99), surpassing clinical deployment thresholds. Multiple distinct, non-overlapping gene subsets exhibited comparable performance, suggesting that resistance acquisition is associated with changes in the expression of diverse regulatory and metabolic genes. Comparison with known resistance markers from CARD and operon annotations revealed a substantial number of previously unannotated clusters, highlighting significant knowledge gaps in current AMR understanding. Mapping these genes onto independently modulated gene sets (iModulons) revealed transcriptional adaptations across diverse genetic regions. Overall, this study presents a streamlined machine-learning workflow for transcriptomic data and offers a pathway toward rapid diagnostics and personalized treatment strategies against AMR.

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Drug Resistance, BacterialPseudomonas aeruginosaAlgorithmsAnti-Bacterial AgentsComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, BacterialHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPseudomonas InfectionsTranscriptomeAnti-Bacterial Agents

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PMID41038842
PMCPMC12491527

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