MicroPhenoDB Associates Metagenomic Datawith Pathogenic Microbes, Microbial Core Genes, and Human Disease Phenotypes
- Author:
Yao GUOCAI
1
;
Zhang WENLIANG
;
Yang MINGLEI
;
Yang HUAN
;
Wang JIANBO
;
Zhang HAIYUE
;
Wei LAI
;
Xie ZHI
;
Li WEIZHONG
Author Information
1. Zhongshan School of Medicine,Sun Yat-sen University,Guangzhou 510080,China
- Keywords:
Pathogenic microbes;
Metagenomic data;
Disease phenotypes;
Microbe-disease association;
COVID-19
- From:
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
2020;18(6):760-772
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Microbes play important roles in human health and disease. The interaction between microbes and hosts is a reciprocal relationship, which remains largely under-explored. Current com-putational resources lack manually and consistently curated data to connect metagenomic data to pathogenic microbes, microbial core genes, and disease phenotypes. We developed the MicroPhenoDB database by manually curating and consistently integrating microbe-disease associ-ation data. MicroPhenoDB provides 5677 non-redundant associations between 1781 microbes and 542 human disease phenotypes across more than 22 human body sites. MicroPhenoDB also pro-vides 696,934 relationships between 27,277 unique clade-specific core genes and 685 microbes. Dis-ease phenotypes are classified and described using the Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO). A refined score model was developed to prioritize the associations based on evidential metrics. The sequence search option in MicroPhenoDB enables rapid identification of existing pathogenic microbes in samples without running the usual metagenomic data processing and assembly. Micro-PhenoDB offers data browsing, searching, and visualization through user-friendly web interfaces and web service application programming interfaces. MicroPhenoDB is the first database platform to detail the relationships between pathogenic microbes, core genes, and disease phenotypes. It will accelerate metagenomic data analysis and assist studies in decoding microbes related to human dis-eases. MicroPhenoDB is available through http://www.liwzlab.cn/microphenodb and http://lilab2. sysu.edu.cn/microphenodb.
