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Record W4412785840 · doi:10.1186/s12859-025-06229-7

The BeeBiome data portal provides easy access to bee microbiome information

2025· article· en· W4412785840 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Valentine Rech de Laval, Benjamin Dainat, Philipp Engel, Marc Robinson‐Rechavi

Bibliographic record

VenueBMC Bioinformatics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicInsect and Pesticide Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaUniversité de Lausanne
KeywordsMetagenomicsData scienceMicrobiomeBiologyWorld Wide WebHoney beeResource (disambiguation)Computer scienceComputational biologyEcologyBioinformaticsGene

Abstract

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Bees can be colonized by a large diversity of microbes, including beneficial gut symbionts and detrimental pathogens, with implications for bee health. Over the last few years, researchers around the world have collected a huge amount of genomic and transcriptomic data about the composition, genomic content, and gene expression of bee-associated microbial communities. While each of these datasets by itself has provided important insights, the integration of such datasets provides an unprecedented opportunity to obtain a global picture of the microbes associated with bees and their link to bee health. The challenge of such an approach is that datasets are difficult to find within large generalist repositories and are often not readily accessible, which hinders integrative analyses. Here we present a publicly-available online resource, the BeeBiome data portal ( https://www.beebiome.org ), which provides an overview of and easy access to currently available metagenomic datasets involving bee-associated microbes. Currently the data portal contains 33,678 Sequence Read Archive (SRA) experiments for 278 Apoidea hosts. We present the content and functionalities of this portal. By providing access to all bee microbiomes in a single place, with easy filtering on relevant criteria, BeeBiome will allow faster progress of applied and fundamental research on bee biology and health. It should be a useful tool for researchers, academics, funding agencies, and governments, with beneficial impacts for stakeholders.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
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: Software · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.061
Threshold uncertainty score0.204

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.005
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0610.045

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 head0.064
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.255 · 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
GenreSoftware

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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