A network-based integrated framework for predicting virus-host interactions
Wang, W.; Ren, J.; Tang, K.; Dart, E.; Fuhrman, J. A.; Braun, J.; Sun, F.; Ahlgren, N. A.
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Metagenomic sequencing has greatly enhanced the discovery of viral genomic sequences; however it remains challenging to identify the host(s) of these new viruses. We developed VirHostMatcher-Net, a flexible, network-based, Markov random field framework for predicting virus-host interactions using multiple, integrated features: CRISPR sequences, sequence homology, and alignment-free similarity measures ([Formula] and WIsH). Evaluation of this method on a benchmark set of 1,075 known viruses-host pairs yielded host prediction accuracy of 62% and 85% at the genus and phylum levels, representing 12-27% and 10-18% improvement respectively over previous single-feature prediction approaches. We applied our host-prediction tool to three metagenomic virus datasets: human gut crAss-like phages, marine viruses, and viruses recovered from globally-distributed, diverse habitats. Host predictions were frequently consistent with those of previous studies, but more importantly, this new tool made many more confident predictions than previous tools, up to 6-fold more (n>60,000), greatly expanding the diversity of known virus-host interactions.
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