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Teixeira M, Silva F, Ferreira RM, Pereira T, Figueiredo C, Oliveira HP. A review of machine learning methods for cancer characterization from microbiome data. NPJ Precis Oncol 2024; 8:123. [PMID: 38816569 PMCID: PMC11139966 DOI: 10.1038/s41698-024-00617-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 05/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/01/2024] Open
Abstract
Recent studies have shown that the microbiome can impact cancer development, progression, and response to therapies suggesting microbiome-based approaches for cancer characterization. As cancer-related signatures are complex and implicate many taxa, their discovery often requires Machine Learning approaches. This review discusses Machine Learning methods for cancer characterization from microbiome data. It focuses on the implications of choices undertaken during sample collection, feature selection and pre-processing. It also discusses ML model selection, guiding how to choose an ML model, and model validation. Finally, it enumerates current limitations and how these may be surpassed. Proposed methods, often based on Random Forests, show promising results, however insufficient for widespread clinical usage. Studies often report conflicting results mainly due to ML models with poor generalizability. We expect that evaluating models with expanded, hold-out datasets, removing technical artifacts, exploring representations of the microbiome other than taxonomical profiles, leveraging advances in deep learning, and developing ML models better adapted to the characteristics of microbiome data will improve the performance and generalizability of models and enable their usage in the clinic.
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- Marco Teixeira
- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal.
- Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Science, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Ipatimup - Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Ipatimup - Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, Porto, Portugal
- Faculty of Science, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Goshisht MK. Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Synthetic Biology: Key Architectures, Applications, and Challenges. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:9921-9945. [PMID: 38463314 PMCID: PMC10918679 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c05913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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Machine learning (ML), particularly deep learning (DL), has made rapid and substantial progress in synthetic biology in recent years. Biotechnological applications of biosystems, including pathways, enzymes, and whole cells, are being probed frequently with time. The intricacy and interconnectedness of biosystems make it challenging to design them with the desired properties. ML and DL have a synergy with synthetic biology. Synthetic biology can be employed to produce large data sets for training models (for instance, by utilizing DNA synthesis), and ML/DL models can be employed to inform design (for example, by generating new parts or advising unrivaled experiments to perform). This potential has recently been brought to light by research at the intersection of engineering biology and ML/DL through achievements like the design of novel biological components, best experimental design, automated analysis of microscopy data, protein structure prediction, and biomolecular implementations of ANNs (Artificial Neural Networks). I have divided this review into three sections. In the first section, I describe predictive potential and basics of ML along with myriad applications in synthetic biology, especially in engineering cells, activity of proteins, and metabolic pathways. In the second section, I describe fundamental DL architectures and their applications in synthetic biology. Finally, I describe different challenges causing hurdles in the progress of ML/DL and synthetic biology along with their solutions.
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- Manoj Kumar Goshisht
- Department of Chemistry, Natural and
Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin—Green
Bay, Green
Bay, Wisconsin 54311-7001, United States
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Chuah CW, He W, Huang DS. GMean-a semi-supervised GRU and K-mean model for predicting the TF binding site. Sci Rep 2024; 14:2539. [PMID: 38291225 PMCID: PMC10827707 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-52933-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/25/2024] [Indexed: 02/01/2024] Open
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The transcription factor binding site is a deoxyribonucleic acid sequence that binds to transcription factors. Transcription factors are proteins that regulate the transcription gene. Abnormal turnover of transcription factors can lead to uncontrolled cell growth. Therefore, discovering the relationships between transcription factors and deoxyribonucleic acid sequences is an important component of bioinformatics research. Numerous deep learning and machine learning language models have been developed to accomplish these tasks. Our goal in this work is to propose a GMean model for predicting unlabelled deoxyribonucleic acid sequences. The GMean model is a hybrid model with a combination of gated recurrent unit and K-mean clustering. The GMean model is developed in three phases. The labelled and unlabelled data are processed based on k-mers and tokenization. The labelled data is used for training. The unlabelled data are used for testing and prediction. The experimental data consists of deoxyribonucleic acid experimental of GM12878, K562 and HepG2. The experimental results show that GMean is feasible and effective in predicting deoxyribonucleic acid sequences, as the highest accuracy is 91.85% in predicting K562 and HepG2. This is followed by the prediction of the sequence between GM12878 and K562 with an accuracy of 89.13%. The lowest accuracy is the prediction of the sequence between HepG2 and GM12828, which is 88.80%.
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- Chai Wen Chuah
- Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Songsan Hu, Dongguang, 523070, Guangdong, China.
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- Guangxi Academy of Sciences, 98 Daling Road, Nanning, 530007, Guangxi, China
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- Eastern Institute for Advanced Study, Eastern Institute of Technology, Tongxin Road No. 568, Ningbo, 315201, China
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Yelmen B, Decelle A, Boulos LL, Szatkownik A, Furtlehner C, Charpiat G, Jay F. Deep convolutional and conditional neural networks for large-scale genomic data generation. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1011584. [PMID: 37903158 PMCID: PMC10635570 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Revised: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 10/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/01/2023] Open
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Applications of generative models for genomic data have gained significant momentum in the past few years, with scopes ranging from data characterization to generation of genomic segments and functional sequences. In our previous study, we demonstrated that generative adversarial networks (GANs) and restricted Boltzmann machines (RBMs) can be used to create novel high-quality artificial genomes (AGs) which can preserve the complex characteristics of real genomes such as population structure, linkage disequilibrium and selection signals. However, a major drawback of these models is scalability, since the large feature space of genome-wide data increases computational complexity vastly. To address this issue, we implemented a novel convolutional Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) model along with a novel conditional RBM (CRBM) framework for generating AGs with high SNP number. These networks implicitly learn the varying landscape of haplotypic structure in order to capture complex correlation patterns along the genome and generate a wide diversity of plausible haplotypes. We performed comparative analyses to assess both the quality of these generated haplotypes and the amount of possible privacy leakage from the training data. As the importance of genetic privacy becomes more prevalent, the need for effective privacy protection measures for genomic data increases. We used generative neural networks to create large artificial genome segments which possess many characteristics of real genomes without substantial privacy leakage from the training dataset. In the near future, with further improvements in haplotype quality and privacy preservation, large-scale artificial genome databases can be assembled to provide easily accessible surrogates of real databases, allowing researchers to conduct studies with diverse genomic data within a safe ethical framework in terms of donor privacy.
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- Burak Yelmen
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRIA, LISN, Paris, France
- University of Tartu, Institute of Genomics, Tartu, Estonia
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRIA, LISN, Paris, France
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Física Teórica, Madrid, Spain
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRIA, LISN, Paris, France
- Université d’Évry Val-d’Essonne, Évry-Courcouronnes, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, INRIA, LISN, Paris, France
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