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Record W4410463661 · doi:10.1093/gbe/evaf092

ParallelEvolCCM: Quantifying Coevolutionary Patterns Among Genomic Features

2025· article· en· W4410463661 on OpenAlexafffund
Robert G. Beiko, Chaoyue Liu, Ryan C. Fink

Bibliographic record

VenueGenome Biology and Evolution · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicBioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaResearch Nova ScotiaGenome AtlanticGenome CanadaAlliance de recherche numérique du CanadaDalhousie University
KeywordsBiologyEvolutionary biologyComputational biology

Abstract

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Concerted gains and losses of genomic features such as genes and mobile genetic elements can provide key clues into related functional roles and shared evolutionary trajectories. By capturing phylogenetic signals, a coevolutionary model can outperform comparative methods based on shared presence and absence of features. We previously developed the Community Coevolution Model, which represents the gain/loss probability of each feature as a combination of its own intrinsic rate, combined with the joint probabilities of gain and loss with all other features. Originally implemented as an R library, we have now developed an R wrapper that adds parallelization and several options to pre-filter the features to increase the efficiency of comparisons. Here we describe the functionality of ParallelEvolCCM and apply it to a dataset of 1000 genomes of the genus Bifidobacterium. ParallelEvolCCM is released under the MIT license and available at https://github.com/beiko-lab/arete/blob/master/bin/ParallelEvolCCM.R.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
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 score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.003
Bibliometrics0.0050.005
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0030.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.003

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.238 · 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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