Microbiome Learning Repo (ML Repo): A Public Repository of Microbiome Regression and Classification Tasks

Overview

Journal Gigascience

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2019 May 2

PMID 31042284

Citations 30

Authors

Pajau Vangay

Benjamin M Hillmann

Dan Knights

Affiliations

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Abstract

The use of machine learning in high-dimensional biological applications, such as the human microbiome, has grown exponentially in recent years, but algorithm developers often lack the domain expertise required for interpretation and curation of the heterogeneous microbiome datasets. We present Microbiome Learning Repo (ML Repo, available at https://knights-lab.github.io/MLRepo/), a public, web-based repository of 33 curated classification and regression tasks from 15 published human microbiome datasets. We highlight the use of ML Repo in several use cases to demonstrate its wide application, and we expect it to be an important resource for algorithm developers.

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