Abstract
Abstract
Background
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global public health because it makes standard treatments ineffective and contributes to the spread of infections. It is important to understand AMR’s biological mechanisms for the development of new drugs and more rapid and accurate clinical diagnostics. The increasing availability of whole-genome SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) information, obtained from whole-genome sequence data, along with AMR profiles provides an opportunity to use feature selection in machine learning to find AMR-associated mutations. This work describes the use of a supervised feature selection approach using deep neural networks to detect AMR-associated genetic factors from whole-genome SNP data.
Results
The proposed method, DNP-AAP (deep neural pursuit – average activation potential), was tested on a Neisseria gonorrhoeae dataset with paired whole-genome sequence data and resistance profiles to five commonly used antibiotics including penicillin, tetracycline, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, and cefixime. The results show that DNP-AAP can effectively identify known AMR-associated genes in N. gonorrhoeae, and also provide a list of candidate genomic features (SNPs) that might lead to the discovery of novel AMR determinants. Logistic regression classifiers were built with the identified SNPs and the prediction AUCs (area under the curve) for penicillin, tetracycline, azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, and cefixime were 0.974, 0.969, 0.949, 0.994, and 0.976, respectively.
Conclusions
DNP-AAP can effectively identify known AMR-associated genes in N. gonorrhoeae. It also provides a list of candidate genes and intergenic regions that might lead to novel AMR factor discovery. More generally, DNP-AAP can be applied to AMR analysis of any bacterial species with genomic variants and phenotype data. It can serve as a useful screening tool for microbiologists to generate genetic candidates for further lab experiments.
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Computer Science Applications,Molecular Biology,Biochemistry,Structural Biology
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