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Efficient computation of contributional diversity metrics from microbiome data with <i>FuncDiv</i>

2022· article· en· W4311575706 on OpenAlexafffund
Gavin M. Douglas, S.J. Kim, Morgan G. I. Langille, B. Jesse Shapiro

Bibliographic record

VenueBioinformatics · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGut microbiota and health
Canadian institutionsMcGill UniversityDalhousie UniversityMcGill Genome Centre
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsLicenseMetagenomicsComputer scienceMicrobiomeENCODEDiversity (politics)Function (biology)Alpha diversityData miningComputational biologyData scienceBiologyBioinformaticsBiodiversityGeneticsGeneEcology

Abstract

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MOTIVATION: Microbiome datasets with taxa linked to the functions (e.g. genes) they encode are becoming more common as metagenomics sequencing approaches improve. However, these data are challenging to analyze due to their complexity. Summary metrics, such as the alpha and beta diversity of taxa contributing to each function (i.e. contributional diversity), represent one approach to investigate these data, but currently there are no straightforward methods for doing so. RESULTS: We addressed this gap by developing FuncDiv, which efficiently performs these computations. Contributional diversity metrics can provide novel insights that would be impossible to identify without jointly considering taxa and functions. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: FuncDiv is distributed under a GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 and is available at https://github.com/gavinmdouglas/FuncDiv. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.015
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.031

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.015
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.003
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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