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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

Detecting signatures underlying the composition of biological data.

Anthony Duncan, Wing Koon, Katarzyna Sidorczuk, Christopher Quince, Clémence Frioux, Falk Hildebrand

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Anthony DuncanEarlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UZ Norwich, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-3849-9527
Wing KoonEarlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UZ Norwich, United Kingdom.
Katarzyna SidorczukEarlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UZ Norwich, United Kingdom.
Christopher QuinceEarlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UZ Norwich, United Kingdom.
Clémence FriouxInria, University of Bordeaux, INRAE, 33400 Talence, France.ORCID 0000-0003-2114-0697
Falk HildebrandEarlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, NR4 7UZ Norwich, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-0078-8948

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/Z516168/1Decoding Biodiversity ISP BBX011089/1Earlham Institute and Quadram Institute BioscienceEarlham Institute Strategic ProgrammeEuropean Research Council erc-stg-948219French National Research Agency ANR-22-PEAE-001Grant Cellular Genomics BBX011070/1Quadram Institute Bioscience ISP BB/X011054/1UK Research and Innovationworkpackage BBS/E/ER/230001Cworkpackage BBS/E/ER/230002Aworkpackage BBS/E/F/000PR13631
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological compositional data is inherently multidimensional and therefore difficult to visualize and interpret. To allow for the automatic decomposition of large compositional data and to capture gradients in co-occurring features, called signatures, we developed a new software package 'cvaNMF'. Our benchmarks on synthetic data show the effectiveness of cross-validation and our novel signature-similarity method to identify a suitable decomposition using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). This software provides a complete set of tools to identify and visualize biologically informative signatures which we demonstrate in a wide range of microbial and cellular datasets: 'Enterosignatures' detected in gut metagenomes differentiated human hosts with diverse diseases; five 'terrasignatures' from rhizosphere metagenomes differentiated root- or soil-associated microbiomes, while being refined enough to infer geographic distances between plants. Large-scale data from >13 000 metagenomes representing 25 biomes were decomposed into environmental and host-associated microbiomes based on five newly discovered signatures. Finally, analysis of the cell composition of non-small cell lung cancer samples allowed separation of cancerous and inflamed tissues based on four cell-type signatures.

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MetagenomicsSoftwareCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungGastrointestinal MicrobiomeHumansLung NeoplasmsMetagenomeMicrobiotaRhizosphere

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PMID41459746
PMCPMC12746108

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