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Record W4414426256 · doi:10.3389/fbinf.2025.1645785

Extracting a COVID-19 signature from a multi-omic dataset

2025· article· en· W4414426256 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Bioinformatics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMachine Learning in Bioinformatics
Canadian institutionsUniversité de MontréalEngineering Link (Canada)Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteUniversité Laval
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchMinistère de la Santé et des Services sociauxMinistère de la SantéGénome QuébecPublic Health AgencyPublic Health Agency of Canada
KeywordsSignature (topology)Pattern recognition (psychology)Path (computing)BiomarkerFeature extractionWork (physics)

Abstract

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Introduction: The complexity of COVID-19 requires approaches that extend beyond symptom-based descriptors. Multi-omic data, combining clinical, proteomic, and metabolomic information, offer a more detailed view of disease mechanisms and biomarker discovery. Methods: As part of a large-scale Quebec initiative, we collected extensive datasets from COVID-19 positive and negative patient samples. Using a multi-view machine learning framework with ensemble methods, we integrated thousands of features across clinical, proteomic, and metabolomic domains to classify COVID-19 status. We further applied a novel feature relevance methodology to identify condensed signatures. Results: Our models achieved a balanced accuracy of 89% ± 5% despite the high-dimensional nature of the data. Feature selection yielded 12- and 50-feature signatures that improved classification accuracy by at least 3% compared to the full feature set. These signatures were both accurate and interpretable. Discussion: This work demonstrates that multi-omic integration, combined with advanced machine learning, enables the extraction of robust COVID-19 signatures from complex datasets. The condensed biomarker sets provide a practical path toward improved diagnosis and precision medicine, representing a significant advancement in COVID-19 biomarker discovery.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
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 score0.286
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.011
GPT teacher head0.298
Teacher spread0.287 · 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