A Novel Sparse Compositional Technique Reveals Microbial Perturbations

ABSTRACT The central aims of many host or environmental microbiome studies are to elucidate factors associated with microbial community compositions and to relate microbial features to outcomes. However, these aims are often complicated by difficulties stemming from high-dimensionality, non-normalit...

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Autores principales: Cameron Martino, James T. Morton, Clarisse A. Marotz, Luke R. Thompson, Anupriya Tripathi, Rob Knight, Karsten Zengler
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:cfc52501a8ce431dbf3c609fdbe467d32021-12-02T18:39:15ZA Novel Sparse Compositional Technique Reveals Microbial Perturbations10.1128/mSystems.00016-192379-5077https://doaj.org/article/cfc52501a8ce431dbf3c609fdbe467d32019-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00016-19https://doaj.org/toc/2379-5077ABSTRACT The central aims of many host or environmental microbiome studies are to elucidate factors associated with microbial community compositions and to relate microbial features to outcomes. However, these aims are often complicated by difficulties stemming from high-dimensionality, non-normality, sparsity, and the compositional nature of microbiome data sets. A key tool in microbiome analysis is beta diversity, defined by the distances between microbial samples. Many different distance metrics have been proposed, all with varying discriminatory power on data with differing characteristics. Here, we propose a compositional beta diversity metric rooted in a centered log-ratio transformation and matrix completion called robust Aitchison PCA. We demonstrate the benefits of compositional transformations upstream of beta diversity calculations through simulations. Additionally, we demonstrate improved effect size, classification accuracy, and robustness to sequencing depth over the current methods on several decreased sample subsets of real microbiome data sets. Finally, we highlight the ability of this new beta diversity metric to retain the feature loadings linked to sample ordinations revealing salient intercommunity niche feature importance. IMPORTANCE By accounting for the sparse compositional nature of microbiome data sets, robust Aitchison PCA can yield high discriminatory power and salient feature ranking between microbial niches. The software to perform this analysis is available under an open-source license and can be obtained at https://github.com/biocore/DEICODE; additionally, a QIIME 2 plugin is provided to perform this analysis at https://library.qiime2.org/plugins/deicode/.Cameron MartinoJames T. MortonClarisse A. MarotzLuke R. ThompsonAnupriya TripathiRob KnightKarsten ZenglerAmerican Society for Microbiologyarticlecompositionalcomputational biologymatrix completionmicrobiomemetagenomicsMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmSystems, Vol 4, Iss 1 (2019)
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topic compositional
computational biology
matrix completion
microbiome
metagenomics
Microbiology
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spellingShingle compositional
computational biology
matrix completion
microbiome
metagenomics
Microbiology
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Cameron Martino
James T. Morton
Clarisse A. Marotz
Luke R. Thompson
Anupriya Tripathi
Rob Knight
Karsten Zengler
A Novel Sparse Compositional Technique Reveals Microbial Perturbations
description ABSTRACT The central aims of many host or environmental microbiome studies are to elucidate factors associated with microbial community compositions and to relate microbial features to outcomes. However, these aims are often complicated by difficulties stemming from high-dimensionality, non-normality, sparsity, and the compositional nature of microbiome data sets. A key tool in microbiome analysis is beta diversity, defined by the distances between microbial samples. Many different distance metrics have been proposed, all with varying discriminatory power on data with differing characteristics. Here, we propose a compositional beta diversity metric rooted in a centered log-ratio transformation and matrix completion called robust Aitchison PCA. We demonstrate the benefits of compositional transformations upstream of beta diversity calculations through simulations. Additionally, we demonstrate improved effect size, classification accuracy, and robustness to sequencing depth over the current methods on several decreased sample subsets of real microbiome data sets. Finally, we highlight the ability of this new beta diversity metric to retain the feature loadings linked to sample ordinations revealing salient intercommunity niche feature importance. IMPORTANCE By accounting for the sparse compositional nature of microbiome data sets, robust Aitchison PCA can yield high discriminatory power and salient feature ranking between microbial niches. The software to perform this analysis is available under an open-source license and can be obtained at https://github.com/biocore/DEICODE; additionally, a QIIME 2 plugin is provided to perform this analysis at https://library.qiime2.org/plugins/deicode/.
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author Cameron Martino
James T. Morton
Clarisse A. Marotz
Luke R. Thompson
Anupriya Tripathi
Rob Knight
Karsten Zengler
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title A Novel Sparse Compositional Technique Reveals Microbial Perturbations
title_short A Novel Sparse Compositional Technique Reveals Microbial Perturbations
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