Investigating the Impact of Antibiotics on Environmental Microbiota Through Machine Learning Models.

Antibiotic pollution in the environment can significantly impact soil microorganisms, such as altering the soil microbial community or emerging antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We propose three machine learning (ML) methods to investigate antibiotics' impact on microorganisms and predict microbia...

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Main Authors: Du, Yiheng, Ahmed, Khandaker Asif, Hasan, Rakibul, Hossain, Md Zakir
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97521
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author Du, Yiheng
Ahmed, Khandaker Asif
Hasan, Rakibul
Hossain, Md Zakir
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Ahmed, Khandaker Asif
Hasan, Rakibul
Hossain, Md Zakir
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building Curtin Institutional Repository
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description Antibiotic pollution in the environment can significantly impact soil microorganisms, such as altering the soil microbial community or emerging antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We propose three machine learning (ML) methods to investigate antibiotics' impact on microorganisms and predict microbial abundance. We examined the microbial abundances of various environmental soil samples treated with antibiotics. We developed 3 ML models: (Model 1) for predicting the most abundant bacterial classes in a specific treatment group; (Model 2) for predicting antibiotic treatment effects based on bacterial abundances; and (Model 3) for using data from short-term incubations to predict the data of community structure after stabilisation. In Model 1, the Random Forest model achieved the highest average accuracy, with a Coefficient of Variation mean of 0.05 and 0.14 in the training and test set. In Model 2, the accuracy of the random forest and SVM models have the highest accuracy (nearly 0.90). Model 3 demonstrates that the Random Forest can use data from short-term incubations to predict the abundance of bacterial communities after long-term stabilisation. This study highlights the potential of ML models as powerful tools for understanding microbial dynamics in response to antibiotic treatments. The code is publicly available at - https://github.com/DeweyYihengDu/ML_on_Microbiota.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-975212025-04-16T04:55:55Z Investigating the Impact of Antibiotics on Environmental Microbiota Through Machine Learning Models. Du, Yiheng Ahmed, Khandaker Asif Hasan, Rakibul Hossain, Md Zakir bioinformatics biology computing learning (artificial intelligence) Machine Learning Anti-Bacterial Agents Microbiota Soil Microbiology Models, Biological Bacteria Bacteria Anti-Bacterial Agents Soil Microbiology Models, Biological Microbiota Machine Learning Antibiotic pollution in the environment can significantly impact soil microorganisms, such as altering the soil microbial community or emerging antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We propose three machine learning (ML) methods to investigate antibiotics' impact on microorganisms and predict microbial abundance. We examined the microbial abundances of various environmental soil samples treated with antibiotics. We developed 3 ML models: (Model 1) for predicting the most abundant bacterial classes in a specific treatment group; (Model 2) for predicting antibiotic treatment effects based on bacterial abundances; and (Model 3) for using data from short-term incubations to predict the data of community structure after stabilisation. In Model 1, the Random Forest model achieved the highest average accuracy, with a Coefficient of Variation mean of 0.05 and 0.14 in the training and test set. In Model 2, the accuracy of the random forest and SVM models have the highest accuracy (nearly 0.90). Model 3 demonstrates that the Random Forest can use data from short-term incubations to predict the abundance of bacterial communities after long-term stabilisation. This study highlights the potential of ML models as powerful tools for understanding microbial dynamics in response to antibiotic treatments. The code is publicly available at - https://github.com/DeweyYihengDu/ML_on_Microbiota. 2025 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97521 10.1049/syb2.70009 eng unknown
spellingShingle bioinformatics
biology computing
learning (artificial intelligence)
Machine Learning
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Microbiota
Soil Microbiology
Models, Biological
Bacteria
Bacteria
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Soil Microbiology
Models, Biological
Microbiota
Machine Learning
Du, Yiheng
Ahmed, Khandaker Asif
Hasan, Rakibul
Hossain, Md Zakir
Investigating the Impact of Antibiotics on Environmental Microbiota Through Machine Learning Models.
title Investigating the Impact of Antibiotics on Environmental Microbiota Through Machine Learning Models.
title_full Investigating the Impact of Antibiotics on Environmental Microbiota Through Machine Learning Models.
title_fullStr Investigating the Impact of Antibiotics on Environmental Microbiota Through Machine Learning Models.
title_full_unstemmed Investigating the Impact of Antibiotics on Environmental Microbiota Through Machine Learning Models.
title_short Investigating the Impact of Antibiotics on Environmental Microbiota Through Machine Learning Models.
title_sort investigating the impact of antibiotics on environmental microbiota through machine learning models.
topic bioinformatics
biology computing
learning (artificial intelligence)
Machine Learning
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Microbiota
Soil Microbiology
Models, Biological
Bacteria
Bacteria
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Soil Microbiology
Models, Biological
Microbiota
Machine Learning
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/97521