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Time-Informed Dimensionality Reduction for Longitudinal Microbiome Studies

Shi, P.; Martino, C.; Han, R.; Janssen, S.; Buck, G.; Serrano, M.; Owzar, K.; Knight, R.; Shenhav, L.; Zhang, A. R.

2024-02-05 bioinformatics
10.1101/2023.07.26.550749 bioRxiv
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Longitudinal studies are crucial for understanding complex microbiome dynamics and their link to health. We introduce TEMPoral TEnsor Decomposition (TEMPTED), a time-informed dimensionality reduction method for high-dimensional longitudinal data that treats time as a continuous variable, effectively characterizing temporal information and handling varying temporal sampling. TEMPTED captures key microbial dynamics, facilitates beta-diversity analysis, and enhances reproducibility by transferring learned representations to new data. In simulations, it achieves 90% accuracy in phenotype classification, significantly outperforming existing methods. In real data, TEMPTED identifies vaginal microbial markers linked to term and preterm births, demonstrating robust performance across datasets and sequencing platforms.

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