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ReviewTrends in microbiology2021

Forest and Trees: Exploring Bacterial Virulence with Genome-wide Association Studies and Machine Learning.

Jonathan P Allen, Evan Snitkin, Nathan B Pincus, Alan R Hauser

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Review in Trends in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  18. Step-by-Step Bacterial Genome Comparison.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jonathan P AllenDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL 60153, USA. Electronic address: jallen19@luc.edu.
Evan SnitkinDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Nathan B PincusDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Alan R HauserDepartment of Microbiology-Immunology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA; Department of Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

Funding

Technology CoreU19AI135964 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LUIS A. Nunes AMARAL · 2018 to 2026
$24.7M
Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM144295 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ALAN R HAUSER · 2022 to 2026
$9.1M
Population Analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa VirulenceR01AI118257 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HAUSER, ALAN R · 2016 to 2025
$4.9M
Regional genomic epidemiology to identify drivers of resistance, transmission and infection with carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniaeR01AI148259 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI SNITKIN, EVAN · 2020 to 2023
$2.2M
Patient-Oriented Research on Pseudomonas aeruginosaK24AI104831 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HAUSER, ALAN R · 2013 to 2024
$1.2M
Biomarkers for Highly Virulent Pseudomonas aeruginosa StrainsR21AI129167 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HAUSER, ALAN R · 2017 to 2018
$570k
Dynamics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa During BacteremiaR21AI153953 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI HAUSER, ALAN R · 2020 to 2021
$435k
Virulence-Associated Accessory Genomic Elements of Pseudomonas aeruginosaF32AI108247 · NIAID · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI ALLEN, JONATHAN P · 2013 to 2014
$95k
NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI108247NIAID NIH HHS K24 AI104831NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI118257NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI148259NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI129167NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI153953NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI135964NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM144295
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advent of inexpensive and rapid sequencing technologies has allowed bacterial whole-genome sequences to be generated at an unprecedented pace. This wealth of information has revealed an unanticipated degree of strain-to-strain genetic diversity within many bacterial species. Awareness of this genetic heterogeneity has corresponded with a greater appreciation of intraspecies variation in virulence. A number of comparative genomic strategies have been developed to link these genotypic and pathogenic differences with the aim of discovering novel virulence factors. Here, we review recent advances in comparative genomic approaches to identify bacterial virulence determinants, with a focus on genome-wide association studies and machine learning.

Indexed as

Genome, BacterialMachine LearningBacteriaGenetic VariationGenome-Wide Association StudyGenomicsGenotypePhylogenyVirulenceVirulence FactorsVirulence Factorsbacteriagenomicsvirulence

Identifiers

PMID33455849
PMCPMC8187264

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Registered trials

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