A Scale-Free, Fully Connected Global Transition Network Underlies Known Microbiome Diversity

Gongchao Jing; Yufeng Zhang; Lu Liu; Zengbin Wang; Zheng Sun; Rob Knight; Xiaoquan Su; Jian Xu

doi:10.1128/mSystems.00394-21

mSystems (Aug 2021)

A Scale-Free, Fully Connected Global Transition Network Underlies Known Microbiome Diversity

Gongchao Jing,
Yufeng Zhang,
Lu Liu,
Zengbin Wang,
Zheng Sun,
Rob Knight,
Xiaoquan Su,
Jian Xu

Affiliations

Gongchao Jing: Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China
Yufeng Zhang: College of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China
Lu Liu: Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China
Zengbin Wang: Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China
Zheng Sun: Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China
Rob Knight: ORCiD; University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Xiaoquan Su: ORCiD; College of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, China
Jian Xu: ORCiD; Single-Cell Center, CAS Key Laboratory of Biofuels and Shandong Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00394-21
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 4

Abstract

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Microbiomes are inherently linked by their structural similarity, yet the global features of such similarity are not clear. Here, we propose as a solution a search-based microbiome transition network.

Published in mSystems

ISSN: 2379-5077 (Online)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Science: Microbiology
Website: https://journals.asm.org/journal/msystems

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