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Vitkin E, Solomon O, Sultan S, et al. Genome-wide analysis of fitness data and its application to improve metabolic models. BMC Bioinformatics. 2018;19(1):368doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2341-9.
Vitkin, E., Solomon, O., Sultan, S., & Yakhini, Z. (2018). Genome-wide analysis of fitness data and its application to improve metabolic models. BMC bioinformatics, 19(1), 368. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2341-9
Vitkin, Edward, et al. "Genome-wide analysis of fitness data and its application to improve metabolic models." BMC bioinformatics vol. 19,1 (2018): 368. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-018-2341-9
Vitkin E, Solomon O, Sultan S, Yakhini Z. Genome-wide analysis of fitness data and its application to improve metabolic models. BMC Bioinformatics. 2018 Oct 10;19(1):368. doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2341-9. PMID: 30305012; PMCID: PMC6180484.
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BMC Bioinformatics. 2018 Oct 10;19(1):368. doi: 10.1186/s12859-018-2341-9.

Genome-wide analysis of fitness data and its application to improve metabolic models.

BMC bioinformatics

Edward Vitkin, Oz Solomon, Sharon Sultan, Zohar Yakhini

Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
  2. Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel. [email protected].
  3. School of Computer Science, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. [email protected].
  4. School of Computer Science, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.
  5. Department of Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel. [email protected].
  6. School of Computer Science, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. [email protected].

PMID: 30305012 PMCID: PMC6180484 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-018-2341-9

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Synthetic biology and related techniques enable genome scale high-throughput investigation of the effect on organism fitness of different gene knock-downs/outs and of other modifications of genomic sequence.

RESULTS: We develop statistical and computational pipelines and frameworks for analyzing high throughput fitness data over a genome scale set of sequence variants. Analyzing data from a high-throughput knock-down/knock-out bacterial study, we investigate differences and determinants of the effect on fitness in different conditions. Comparing fitness vectors of genes, across tens of conditions, we observe that fitness consequences strongly depend on genomic location and more weakly depend on gene sequence similarity and on functional relationships. In analyzing promoter sequences, we identified motifs associated with conditions studied in bacterial media such as Casaminos, D-glucose, Sucrose, and other sugars and amino-acid sources. We also use fitness data to infer genes associated with orphan metabolic reactions in the iJO1366 E. coli metabolic model. To do this, we developed a new computational method that integrates gene fitness and gene expression profiles within a given reaction network neighborhood to associate this reaction with a set of genes that potentially encode the catalyzing proteins. We then apply this approach to predict candidate genes for 107 orphan reactions in iJO1366. Furthermore - we validate our methodology with known reactions using a leave-one-out approach. Specifically, using top-20 candidates selected based on combined fitness and expression datasets, we correctly reconstruct 39.7% of the reactions, as compared to 33% based on fitness and to 26% based on expression separately, and to 4.02% as a random baseline. Our model improvement results include a novel association of a gene to an orphan cytosine nucleosidation reaction.

CONCLUSION: Our pipeline for metabolic modeling shows a clear benefit of using fitness data for predicting genes of orphan reactions. Along with the analysis pipelines we developed, it can be used to analyze similar high-throughput data.

Keywords: Co-expression; Co-fitness; Fitness data; Flux balance analysis (FBA); Metabolic modelling; Orphan reactions

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