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Record W4402164248 · doi:10.1186/s13040-024-00380-2

Seven quick tips for gene-focused computational pangenomic analysis

2024· article· en· W4402164248 on OpenAlexaff
Vincenzo Bonnici

Bibliographic record

VenueBioData Mining · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCell Image Analysis Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
FundersUniversità degli Studi di ParmaUniversità degli Studi di Trento
KeywordsComputer scienceData scienceComputational biologyData miningBiology

Abstract

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Pangenomics is a relatively new scientific field which investigates the union of all the genomes of a clade. The word pan means everything in ancient Greek; the term pangenomics originally regarded genomes of bacteria and was later intended to refer to human genomes as well. Modern bioinformatics offers several tools to analyze pangenomics data, paving the way to an emerging field that we can call computational pangenomics. Current computational power available for the bioinformatics community has made computational pangenomic analyses easy to perform, but this higher accessibility to pangenomics analysis also increases the chances to make mistakes and to produce misleading or inflated results, especially by beginners. To handle this problem, we present here a few quick tips for efficient and correct computational pangenomic analyses with a focus on bacterial pangenomics, by describing common mistakes to avoid and experienced best practices to follow in this field. We believe our recommendations can help the readers perform more robust and sound pangenomic analyses and to generate more reliable results.

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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)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.093
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.044
Threshold uncertainty score0.147

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.093
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0040.003
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0050.004
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0070.012
Open science0.0060.006
Research integrity0.0050.015
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0440.050

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 head0.021
GPT teacher head0.296
Teacher spread0.275 · 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 designNot applicable
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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