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A Novel Slope-Matrix-Graph Algorithm to Analyze Compositional Microbiome Data
DOI:10.3390/microorganisms12091866.png)
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Networks are widely used to represent relationships between objects, including microorganisms within ecosystems, based on high-throughput sequencing data. However, challenges arise with appropriate statistical algorithms, handling of rare taxa, excess zeros in compositional data, and interpretation. This work introduces a novel Slope-Matrix-Graph (SMG) algorithm to identify microbiome correlations primarily based on slope-based distance calculations. SMG effectively handles any proportion of zeros in compositional data and involves: (1) searching for correlated relationships (e.g., positive and negative directions of changes) based on a target of interest within a setting, and (2) quantifying graph changes via slope-based distances between objects. Evaluations on simulated datasets demonstrated SMG's ability to accurately cluster microbes into distinct positive/negative correlation groups, outperforming methods like Bray-Curtis and SparCC in both sensitivity and specificity. Moreover, SMG demonstrated superior accuracy in detecting differential abundance (DA) compared to ZicoSeq and ANCOM-BC2, making it a robust tool for microbiome analysis. A key advantage is SMG's natural capacity to analyze zero-inflated compositional data without transformations. Overall, this simple yet powerful algorithm holds promise for diverse microbiome analysis applications.
Keyword:
microbiome
zero-inflated compositional data
rate of change
differential abundance analysis (DAA)
graph theory
slope-based distances
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