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Microbial Signature for Colorectal Cancer Identified Using Machine Learning

APRIL 17TH, 2019  SIAVASH PARKHIDEH GENETICS, GI, INFORMATICS, ONCOLOGY, PATHOLOGY

Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, the University of Trento in Italy, and other international collaborators leveraged a machine learning algorithm to identify a subset of gut bacteria associated with colorectal cancer, the third most common cancer worldwide. They performed a meta-analysis of eight studies of gut bacteria and colorectal cancer, spanning seven countries and three continents, and found that the microbiome changes associated with colorectal cancer are robust, despite differences in environment or diet.

The team used a tool called mOT