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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2026

From trees to graphs: rethinking phylogeny in microbiome prediction.

Qiao Yu, Defeng Bai, Yao Wang, Yong-Xin Liu

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Qiao Yu *State Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Breeding, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China.ORCID 0009-0000-1707-0038
Defeng Bai *State Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Breeding, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China.ORCID 0009-0005-7762-7199
Yao WangState Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Breeding, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6824-8852
Yong-Xin LiuState Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Breeding, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1832-9835

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Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program CAAS-BRC-CB-2025-01National Natural Science Foundation of China 32522001
6 · The paper itself

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Microbiome prediction models overlook phylogeny or fail to preserve evolutionary structure. In a recent

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BacteriaMicrobiotaPhylogenyPrediction Algorithmsgraph convolutional networks (GCNs)microbiome predictionphylogeny

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PMID42678172
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