The large number of different genomes in the environment and their highly skewed abundance distribution make it difficult to obtain contiguous and complete assemblies (Ayling et al., 2019), an outcome that negatively impacts gene prediction. 10 (11), 2633. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2016.59, Bishara, A., Moss, E., Kolmogorov, M., Parada, A., Weng, Z., Sidow, A., et al. Microbial characterization of probiotics–Advisory report of the Working Group “8651 Probiotics” of the Belgian Superior Health Council (SHC). ISME J. Advances in sequencing and computational biology have drastically increased our capability to explore the taxonomic and functional compositions of microbial communities that play crucial roles in industrial processes. (2013). Other challenges relate to shotgun metagenome analyses in large studies, where expensive calculations used in de novo assembly and annotation may result in capacity issues. (2017). Exhaustively analyzing all functional aspects and querying all potential longitudinal and cross-sectional aspects of a microbiome dataset is generally considered a hopeless task. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks479, Zeeuwen, P., Boekhorst, J., van den Bogaard, E., de Koning, H., de Kerkhof, P., Saulnier, D., et al. Identification of Bacillus probiotics isolated from soil rhizosphere using 16S rRNA, recA, rpoB gene sequencing and RAPD-PCR. (2016). Correspondingly, commercial interest has risen for applications where microbial communities make important contributions. 12 (7), e1004977. Antibiotics 6 (4), 27. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics6040027, Franzosa, E., McIver, L., Rahnavard, G., Thompson, L., Schirmer, M., Weingart, G., et al. (2018). Apply Today. 1–11. Methods. machine learning-based) identification of candidate probiotic strains and reduce the time and financial cost of probiotics screening. Bioinformatics 33 (6), 791–798. BIO, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, predicts that advancements in biotechnology, bioinformatics, and computational biology will significantly assist the world as it faces the 21st century’s impending resource challenges. (2016). Basically, bioinformatics is a recently developed science using information to understand biological phenomenon. Using a specific database to answer a particular hypothesis, such as in the case with certain enzyme classes or a set of enzymatic pathways, is such an approach. 45 (W1), W36–W41. These applications pose several bioinformatic and data science challenges that range from requiring strain-level resolution in community profiles to the integration of large datasets for predictive machine learning purposes. Genet. 4 (16), 410–422. (2017). doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.12421, Dhariwal, A., Chong, J., Habib, S., King, I., Agellon, L., Xia, J. (2019). Bioinformatics refers to the study of large sets of biodata, biological statistics, and results of scientific studies. Proc. Metagenome assembly enables gene prediction, annotation, and abundance profiling, and therefore is an important computational step when studying the functional composition and capacity of microbiomes. Nucleic Acids Res. Presently a large list of bioinformatics tools and softwares are available which are based on machine learning.The twin of Bioinformatics, called Computational Biology have emerged largely into development of softwares and application using machine learning and deep learning techniques for biological image data analysis. Computational biology researches, develops, and implements algorithms or tools that address biological questions, concerns, or challenges that have been raised by bioinformatic analyses. Computational biology is useful in scientific research, including the examination of how proteins interact with each other through the simulation of protein folding, motion, and interaction. MetaBAT, an efficient tool for accurately reconstructing single genomes from complex microbial communities. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1165, Kasai, C., Sugimoto, K., Moritani, I., Tanaka, J., Oya, Y., Inoue, H., et al. We see the emergence of tailored bioinformatic methods such as the Athena assembler (Bishara et al., 2018), which uses barcode information in short-reads and improves the contiguity of metagenome assemblies. Postdoctoral Scholarship in Data Science, Bioinformatics or Computational Biology in Human Host-Microbiome Interaction, with KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Focusing on interdisciplinary applications that combine e.g. While both fields pursue greater utilization of our collective biological understanding, bioinformatics tends to concern itself with the gathering and collation of biodata, and computational biology with the practical application of this biodata. Genome Res. Machine learning meta-analysis of large metagenomic datasets: tools and biological insights. This led to studies with higher statistical power, and consequently to the transition of OTU tables and functional profiles from end-goal deliverables into starting material for downstream analyses such as machine learning (ML) applications (Pasolli et al., 2016). (2012). metaSPAdes: a new versatile metagenomic assembler. Preparation of Reports 8. (2014). STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life. Even with high dataset coverage and advanced methods, assemblies from short-read datasets commonly remain very fragmented, especially in samples from complex communities like soil. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx295, Dutilh, B., Schmieder, R., Nulton, J., Felts, B., Salamon, P., Edwards, R., et al. Plant Genetic Resources Data Base 3. Computational biology, a branch of biology involving the application of computers and computer science to the understanding and modeling of the structures and processes of life.It entails the use of computational methods (e.g., algorithms) for the representation and simulation of biological systems, as well as for the interpretation of experimental data, often on a very large scale. doi: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-11-r101, Zeevi, D., Korem, T., Godneva, A., Bar, N., Kurilshikov, A., Lotan-Pompan, M., et al. doi: 10.1016/j.fm.2016.02.004, Falony, G., Joossens, M., Vieira-Silva, S., Wang, J., Darzi, Y., Faust, K., et al. (2012). doi: 10.1038/s41579-018-0029-9, Kong, H., Andersson, B., Clavel, T., Common, J., Jackson, S., Olson, N., et al. Furthermore, the data can be corrected for one of the variables, such as ‘subject’ so that the variance from that covariate is removed before the actual analysis is performed, which facilitates determining the effect of the treatment. Nat. *Correspondence: Ali May, ali.may@baseclear.nl, Front. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv688, Arboleya, S., Bottacini, F., O’Connell-Motherway, M., Ryan, C., Ross, R., Van Sinderen, D., et al. Nucleic Acids Res. The majority of the computational biology careers one might find on BioSpace, Science Careers, or Indeed involve data mining, data extraction, content curation, research, data analytics, bioinformatic theory, data management, programming, technical writing and documentation, and project management. 14 (5), 451. doi: 10.1038/s41589-018-0017-4, Berendsen, E., Boekhorst, J., Kuipers, O., Wells-Bennik, M. (2016). (FEEDAP), E., Rychen, G., Aquilina, G., Azimonti, G., Bampidis, V., Bastos, M., et al. Mol. These processes are governed by the presence or absence of strain-specific enzymes (Escobar-Zepeda et al., 2016). Rochester Institute of Technology, on-campus MSc: The Rochester Institute of Technology offers an on-campus master’s in bioinformatics degree that focuses on bioinformatics theory, data programming, proteomics, data management, data science, systems biology, and genetics. Microbiol. Nucleic Acids Res. This is due, in part, to the fact that the two fields have been around for only a few short decades. dairy starter cultures) can be combined using co-assembly methods like crass (Dutilh et al., 2012) which also facilitates metagenomic comparison between samples. doi: 10.1126/science.aad3503, Fenster, K., Freeburg, B., Hollard, C., Wong, C., Rønhave Laursen, R., Ouwehand, A. Next to the checks performed for raw materials, quality control of the end product is necessary to ensure the presence of correct strains and the absence of pathogens (Fenster et al., 2019). (2017). BMC Gastroenterol. (2016). (2018), we think that a primary objective of microbiome studies should be to standardize the documentation of used methods, tools, data formats, and data processing parameters, and to publish these “logs” next to the final results and interpretations. (2017). Application of Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (10.1093/bib/bbk007). doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv033, Lloyd-Price, J., Mahurkar, A., Rahnavard, G., Crabtree, J., Orvis, J., Hall, A., et al. Gastroenterol. Pevsner (2015) summarizes the field of bioinformatics and genomics from three perspectives: i) the cell and the central dogma of molecular biology. Computational biology focuses on the application of computational techniques to problems in molecular biology, genomics, and biophysics. Methods 13 (5), 435. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3802, Singh, R., Kumar, M., Mittal, A., Mehta, P. (2016). Microbiome dynamics of human epidermis following skin barrier disruption. Bioinformatics involves close relation between biology and computers that influence each other and synergistically merging more than once. The vast number of experimental and computational methods available for microbiome research have led to a broad collection of choices. (2018). Performing skin microbiome research: a method to the madness. Metagenomics as a tool for enzyme discovery: hydrolytic enzymes from marine-related metagenomes. of lactic acid bacteria) are used in a variety of food and beverage production processes including the manufacture of cheese, yoghurt, meat, and wine. UNOISE2: improved error-correction for Illumina 16S and ITS amplicon sequencing. Bioinformatics / ˌ b aɪ. For instance, in the genus Bifidobacterium, genetic differences between different strains of the same species underlie differences in carbohydrate utilization profiles (Arboleya et al., 2018). Nat. Small differences in the gene content of otherwise genetically identical bacterial strains can lead to different phenotypes (Zeevi et al., 2019), which in return may result in different outcomes in vivo. From Bioinformatics to Computational Biology. Guidance on the characterisation of microorganisms used as feed additives or as production organisms. 45 (W1), W180–W188. This has a great potential to improve the phylogenetic depth at which microbiome studies can be interpreted. The applications are: 1. Microbial strain-level population structure and genetic diversity from metagenomes. Assembling metagenomes, one community at a time. Bioinformatics is the acquisition, application of computational tools, storage, arrangement, identification, archiving, analysis, interpretation, visualization and communication approaches for expanding the use of biological, medical, behavioral or health data in molecular biology research development. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts613, Edgar, R. (2010). New approaches for metagenome assembly with short reads. A notable example of the latter is the recent discovery of two enzymes that enable the production of a renewable alternative to toluene, a petrochemical with a market of 29 million tons per year, from complex microbial communities that live in sewages and lakes (Beller et al., 2018). Today, bioinformatics is used in large number of fields such as microbial genome applications, biotechnology, waste cleanup, Gene Therapy etc. Probiotics are microbes that are intended to benefit the host health when consumed in adequate amounts. J. Miranda, J. Seoane, A., Esteban, E. Espí. We believe that the findings from comparative studies of the gut microbiome that highlight associations between phenotypic traits such as inflammation (Andoh et al., 2012) and obesity (Kasai et al., 2015) and specific bacterial populations, when integrated with other sources like metabolomic, demographic, dietary, and lifestyle datasets, may allow automated (e.g. Eds. Bioinformatics 28 (24), 3225–3231. Correspondingly, commercial interest has risen for applications where microbial communities make important contributions. PLoS Comput. Nutr. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, Mohkam, M., Nezafat, N., Berenjian, A., Mobasher, M., Ghasemi, Y. 1 (12), 16203. doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.203, LaPierre, N., Ju, C.-T., Zhou, G., Wang, W. (2019). Proc. Nat. Transfer: lab rotations in bioinformatics, computer science and experimental biology; Option for 8 week industrial internship (up to 8 weeks as part of the programme, longer internships will delay completion of studies beyond 2 years) Application: Master Thesis (6 months) Sequence comparison 4 5. EFSA J. We conclude with sharing our view on the future directions and requirements of industrial microbiome applications in terms of their computational components. Food Microbiol. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2011.06.072, Scholz, M., Ward, D., Pasolli, E., Tolio, T., Zolfo, M., Asnicar, F., et al. Bioinformatics plays a vital role in the areas of structural genomics, functional genomics, and nutritional genomics. Strains, functions and dynamics in the expanded Human Microbiome Project. Cell 163 (5), 1079–1094. 10 (1), 91–102. The databases they build are typically used for processing and analyzing things like genomic information or genetic trends. (2018). Alternatively, these enzymes can be studied by metagenome sequencing, assembly, and annotation, for instance, in product optimization (De Filippis et al., 2017). Med. In this perspective, we give an overview of several industrial microbiome applications with their bioinformatic and data science challenges. Acad. Nat. 27 (4), 626–638. These include food production, probiotics, cosmetics, and enzyme discovery. Finally, the rapid translation of microbiome research into important industrial applications in healthcare, energy, and food production will continue to stimulate collaborations between academic and industrial communities. Application of Machine Learning in Microbiology. Probiotic members such as Bifidobacterium longum subsp. In addition, we highlight some of the advances that have the potential to provide valuable insights into the challenges facing these applications. 27 (5), 824–834. Other promising developments revolve around using barcoded short reads that have long-range information, such as those provided by 10x Genomics (http://10xgenomics.com), in microbiome research. Impact Factor 3.258 | CiteScore 2.7More on impact ›, Computational Methods for Microbiome Analysis Genet., 09 August 2019 141 (5), 1782–1791. Journal of Applied Bioinformatics & Computational Biology is a peer reviewed, hybrid based journal that provides dual mode of publication thus facilitates high visibility and reachability. COCACOLA: binning metagenomic contigs using sequence COmposition, read CoverAge, CO-alignment and paired-end read LinkAge. The program also offers a graduate certificate in data science. Studying such enzymes through strain isolation is often costly and time-consuming since culturing strain representatives is difficult due to laborious or unknown growth conditions (Lagier et al., 2016). Bioinformatics 32 (7), 1009–1015. (2018). Computational biology, by contrast, is concerned with solutions to issues that have been raised by studies in bioinformatics. J. (2017). Additionally, there are several graduate certificates available, including those from: Columbia University in the City of New York, online MSc: (2018). Examples of such databases and tools are Resfams (Gibson et al., 2015), dbCAN (Yin et al., 2012), and antiSMASH (Blin et al., 2017), focusing on antibiotic resistance, carbohydrate utilization, and secondary metabolite synthesis, respectively. Ultimately, 72 taxonomic or functional features of the microbiome were included in the predictive model. Genome Res. Emerging Trends in Applications and Infrastructures for Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology: Systems and Applications covers the latest trends in the field with special emphasis on their applications. doi: 10.1093/nar/gku1003, Truong, D., Tett, A., Pasolli, E., Huttenhower, C., Segata, N. (2017). (2019). MBio. Although their use in microbiome studies is currently not common, long-read sequencing platforms Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) offer exciting opportunities for several industrial applications mentioned above. Res. Improved annotation of antibiotic resistance determinants reveals microbial resistomes cluster by ecology. BioRxiv 081257. doi: 10.1101/081257, Escobar-Zepeda, A., Sanchez-Flores, A., Baruch, M. (2016). Nat. Microb. 3 (30), 934. doi: 10.21105/joss.00934, Callahan, B., DiGiulio, D., Goltsman, D., Sun, C., Costello, E., Jeganathan, P., et al. In a recent study of cow rumen microbiome, a valuable environment for biomass-degrading enzyme discovery, Stewart et al. (2018) showed that 90% of the proteins predicted to be involved in the studied mechanism (carbohydrate metabolism) did not have a good match in public databases. As mentioned in Probiotics, we expect dataset integration and ML to have an impact also on areas such as screening of novel probiotics. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1402564111, Huys, G., Botteldoorn, N., Delvigne, F., De Vuyst, L., Heyndrickx, M., Pot, B., et al. 3 Biotech. Brief Bioinform. The on-demand sequencing nature of ONT, on the other hand, seems suitable for quality control applications for detecting distinct pathogens, although the high error rate is limiting for accurate, strain-level detection. Bioinformatics is the process by which biological problems posed by the assessment or study of biodata are interpreted and analysed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports an uptick in the percentage of bioinformatics and computational biology positions in the wider economy, such as in the occupations of computer and information research scientists, biomedical scientists, and biomedical engineers. 2 3. Tools like HUMAnN2 (Franzosa et al., 2018) work directly with short-read data without requiring an assembly for profiling protein family abundance. Identification of novel probiotics is a laborious process that starts with constructing a strain library using a culturomics approach (Lagier et al., 2016). (2015). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). Food Res. BMC Genomics 18 (1), 521. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-3918-9, Wallen-Russell, C. (2019). Eds. Biol. Such findings highlight the relatively large room for improvement in microbiome annotation. 57, 116–127. The following points highlight the top ten applications of bioinformatics in plant breeding and genetics. MetaPheno: a critical evaluation of deep learning and machine learning in metagenome-based disease prediction. The editor and reviewers' affiliations are the latest provided on their Loop research profiles and may not reflect their situation at the time of review. BMC Genomics 19 (1), 33. doi: 10.1186/s12864-017-4388-9, Ayling, M., Clark, M., Leggett, R. (2019). As both fields rely on the availability and accuracy of datasets, they usually help one another reach their respective project goals. in F Ortuño & I Rojas (eds), Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering - 3rd International Conference, IWBBIO 2015, Proceedings. 36, 1067–1075. Columbia University offers an online master’s in computational biology degree that focuses on subjects such as data science, bioinformatics programming, bioinformatics computational methods, mathematical biology, and bioengineering. Bioinformatics is conceptualizing biology in terms of molecules and applying informatics techniques to understand and organise the information associated with these molecule, on a large scale. (2016). All authors were involved in the writing and final preparation of the article. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.201300065, Kang, D., Froula, J., Egan, R., Wang, Z. J. Investig. The production and delivery of probiotics: a review of a practical Approach. Principal response curves: analysis of time-dependent multivariate responses of biological community to stress. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1065-y, Zeevi, D., Korem, T., Zmora, N., Israeli, D., Rothschild, D., Weinberger, A., et al. For companies that cannot afford large on-premise compute infrastructures, the cloud provides a flexible alternative, where know-how of cloud-computing becomes essential. Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST. Bioinformatics is the combination (or marriage) of biology and information technology. |, Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). Natl. Bioinformatics and computational biology are two fields that have arisen from the growth of bioenterprise around the globe. Two main bioinformatic challenges in metagenomic enzyme discovery arise from the same fact that makes the chosen environment (e.g. It has become an industrial standard to study the taxonomic composition and functional capabilities of these microorganisms using marker gene (e.g. A mere application Correspondingly, we see potential in adapting hybrid assembly methods such as hybridSPAdes (Antipov et al., 2015) to enable their use with long- and short-read metagenome datasets. Among others, marine, soil, and lake microbiomes, with their extremely high and mainly uncharacterized biodiversity, constitute exciting functional mines not only in the search for new enzymes with such desired properties, but also for the discovery of novel enzymes that can catalyze challenging reactions (Popovic et al., 2015). doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw290, McFarland, L., Evans, C., Goldstein, E. (2018). In addition, metagenome assembly plays an important role in analyzing bacteriophage populations in cultures in terms of their abundance, diversity, and development (Muhammed et al., 2017), which is important not only in the prevention of phage infections that cause fermentation failures, but also for unlocking the potential of phages against food-borne pathogens (Fernández et al., 2017). High-throughput amplicon sequencing of the full-length 16S rRNA gene with single-nucleotide resolution. (2012). While operationally their analyses are the same as those used for research, they must pay far more attention to the clarity of the results to ensure correct interpretations by the end-users even if the results are stated not to be interpreted as diagnosis. On the other hand, Sze and Schloss (2016) used 10 previously published obesity datasets and showed that RF ML models trained on one of the datasets and tested on the remaining nine had a median accuracy of only 56.68%, suggesting that i) the method may not be applicable for some diseases, or ii) the disease signal may be more apparent at the level of differentially expressed functions (gene transcripts) of the microbiome. The term “bioinformatics” is short for “biological informatics”. Nonetheless, the predictive value of a person’s gut microbiome for health was demonstrated by an inspirational study by Zeevi and colleagues (2015), which integrated blood parameters, dietary habits, anthropometrics, physical activity, and the gut microbiome data into a machine learning algorithm that predicted the post meal glycemic responses of the subjects. 83 (19), e00888–e00817. Dermatol. Looking for a signal in the noise: revisiting obesity and the microbiome. Bioinformatics and computational biology involve the analysis of biological data, particularly DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. Some of the questions asked in these microbiome studies are related to determining the efficacy of probiotics and require strain-level characterization of the community composition (McFarland et al., 2018). The only single, up-to-date source for Grid issues in bioinformatics and biology Bioinformatics is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial applications, creating a need for the use of Grid computing techniques for large-scale distributed applications. Methods 15 (11), 962. doi: 10.1038/s41592-018-0176-y, Gibson, M., Forsberg, K., Dantas, G. (2015). University of Idaho, on-campus Msc: The University of Idaho offers an on-campus master’s in computational biology degree that focuses on subjects such as bioinformatics programming, mathematical biology, data science, bioinformatics, and computational methods. This approach, validated further with another independent cohort, is now offered to the public by DayTwo4, which is a good example of how extensive datasets from scientific studies and data science can be combined in an industrial setting for providing customers with evidence-based health-related recommendations. Methods 13 (7), 581. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3869, Callahan, B., Wong, J., Heiner, C., Oh, S., Theriot, C., Gulati, A., et al. Biotechnol. Cosmetics 6 (1), 2. doi: 10.3390/cosmetics6010002, Wu, Y.-W., Tang, Y.-H., Tringe, S., Simmons, B., Singer, S. (2014). q2-sample-classifier: machine-learning tools for microbiome classification and regression. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btq461, Edgar, R. (2016). Microbiome 6 (1), 153. doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0535-z, Nurk, S., Meleshko, D., Korobeynikov, A., Pevzner, P. (2017). This is followed by in vitro and computational research on the obtained strains to functionally characterize them, for instance for their bile resistance and potential to survive the passage of the stomach. What constrains researchers to their current practices is mainly the laborious nature of adopting other (new) protocols, which may have an ironically detrimental effect on comparability between different studies, or even within studies that run over prolonged periods. (2017). Environ. Includes the outcomes of the 12th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics held in Toledo, Spain, from 20th to 22nd June 2018 Discusses applications of computational intelligence with an interdisciplinary character, exploring the interactions between bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, and systems biology Rev. The field of bioinformatics emerged as a tool to facilitate biological discoveries more than 10 years ago. Int J. Biotechnol. Chem. Best practices for analysing microbiomes. Metagenomic analysis of dairy bacteriophages: extraction method and pilot study on whey samples derived from using undefined and defined mesophilic starter cultures. (2015). For instance, in comparative studies with large cohorts where the impact of probiotics on the abundances of gene groups and pathways is analyzed, tools that are computationally less intensive, such as MEGAHIT (Li et al., 2015), are preferred. Whole-metagenome sequencing and analysis has the potential not only to circumvent these lengthy processes in providing strain-level information, but also to enable screening of undesired traits such as (spore) heat-resistance based on the presence of associated genes (Berendsen et al., 2016). What Are The Differences Between Computational Biology and Bioinformatics? The only single, up-to-date source for Grid issues in bioinformatics and biology Bioinformatics is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial applications, creating a need for the use of Grid computing techniques for large-scale distributed applications. In addition, data from other omics sources such as metatranscriptomics and metabolomics can be used in integrative studies to generate leads, for instance in enzyme discovery. Nat. Nat. PeerJ 3, e1165. Commun. Discover how to streamline complex bioinformatics applications with parallel computing This publication enables readers to handle more complex bioinformatics applications and larger and richer data sets. The variety of data from biology, mainly in the form of DNA, RNA, protein sequences is putting heavy demand in computer sciences and computational biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087830, Beller, H., Rodrigues, A., Zargar, K., Wu, Y.-W., Saini, A., Saville, R., et al. 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