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ISBRA 2017: Bioinformatics Research and Applications pp 162–173Cite as

Unbiased Taxonomic Annotation of Metagenomic Samples

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Abstract

The classification of reads from a metagenomic sample using a reference taxonomy is usually based on first mapping the reads to the reference sequences and then, classifying each read at a node under the lowest common ancestor of the candidate sequences in the reference taxonomy with the least classification error. However, this taxonomic annotation can be biased by an imbalanced taxonomy and also by the presence of multiple nodes in the taxonomy with the least classification error for a given read. In this paper, we show that the Rand index is a better indicator of classification error than the often used area under the ROC curve and F-measure for both balanced and imbalanced reference taxonomies, and we also address the second source of bias by reducing the taxonomic annotation problem for a whole metagenomic sample to a set cover problem, for which a logarithmic approximation can be obtained in linear time.

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  • Metagenomics
  • Classification
  • Taxonomic annotation
  • Correlation
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Partially supported by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and European Regional Development Fund project DPI2015-67082-P (MINECO/FEDER).

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  1. Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Bruno Fosso & Graziano Pesole

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Research Institute of Health Science, University of the Balearic Islands, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Francesc Rosselló

  3. Algorithms, Bioinformatics, Complexity and Formal Methods Research Group, Technical University of Catalonia, 08034, Barcelona, Spain

    Gabriel Valiente

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  1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Zhipeng Cai

  2. University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA

    Ovidiu Daescu

  3. Central South University, Changsha, China

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Fosso, B., Pesole, G., Rosselló, F., Valiente, G. (2017). Unbiased Taxonomic Annotation of Metagenomic Samples. In: Cai, Z., Daescu, O., Li, M. (eds) Bioinformatics Research and Applications. ISBRA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10330. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59575-7_15

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