Title
A method for automated pathogenic content estimation with application to rheumatoid arthritis.
Abstract
BackgroundSequencing technologies applied to mammals’ microbiomes have revolutionized our understanding of health and disease. Hence, to assess diseases’ progression as well as therapies longterm effects, the impact of maladies and drugs on the gut-intestinal (GI) microbiome has to be evaluated. Typical metagenomic analyses are run to associate to a condition (disease, therapy, diet) a pool of bacteria, whose eubiotic/dysbiotic potential is assessed either by α-diversity, a measure of the varieties populating the microbiome, or by Firmicutes to Bacteroides ratio, associated to systemic inflammation, and finally by manual and direct inspection of bacteria’s biological functions, when known. These approaches lead to results sometimes difficult to interpret in terms of the evolution towards a specific microbial composition, harmed by large areas of unknown.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1186/s12918-016-0344-6
BMC Systems Biology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Microbiome, Pathogens, Rheumatoid arthritis
Bacteroides,Disease,Biology,Firmicutes,Systemic inflammation,Microbiome,Systems biology,Metagenomics,Rheumatoid arthritis,Bioinformatics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
1
1752-0509
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoyuan Zhou110.71
Christine Nardini2659.00