Meta-network: optimized species-species network analysis for microbial communities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The explosive growth of microbiome data provides ample opportunities to gain a better understanding of the microbes and their interactions in microbial communities. Given these massive data, optimized data mining methods become important and necessary to perform deep and comprehensive analysis. Among the various priorities for microbiome data mining, the examination of species-species co-occurrence patterns becomes one of the key themes in urgent need.

Results

Hence, in this work, we propose the Meta-Network framework to lucubrate the microbial communities. Rooted in loose definitions of network (two species co-exist in a certain samples rather than all samples) as well as association rule mining (mining more complex forms of correlations like indirect correlation

SUBMITTER: Yang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6457071 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature