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What country, university or research institute, performed the best on COVID-19? Bibliometric analysis of scientific literature
In this article, we conduct data mining to discover the countries,
universities and companies, produced or collaborated the most research on
Covid-19 since the pandemic started. We present some interesting findings, but
despite analysing all available records on COVID-19 from the Web of Science
Core Collection, we failed to reach any significant conclusions on how the
world responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we increased our analysis
to include all available data records on pandemics and epidemics from 1900 to
2020. We discover some interesting results on countries, universities and
companies, that produced collaborated most the most in research on pandemic and
epidemics. Then we compared the results with the analysing on COVID-19 data
records. This has created some interesting findings that are explained and
graphically visualised in the article
Microbial community pattern detection in human body habitats via ensemble clustering framework
The human habitat is a host where microbial species evolve, function, and
continue to evolve. Elucidating how microbial communities respond to human
habitats is a fundamental and critical task, as establishing baselines of human
microbiome is essential in understanding its role in human disease and health.
However, current studies usually overlook a complex and interconnected
landscape of human microbiome and limit the ability in particular body habitats
with learning models of specific criterion. Therefore, these methods could not
capture the real-world underlying microbial patterns effectively. To obtain a
comprehensive view, we propose a novel ensemble clustering framework to mine
the structure of microbial community pattern on large-scale metagenomic data.
Particularly, we first build a microbial similarity network via integrating
1920 metagenomic samples from three body habitats of healthy adults. Then a
novel symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) based ensemble model is
proposed and applied onto the network to detect clustering pattern. Extensive
experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of our model on
deriving microbial community with respect to body habitat and host gender. From
clustering results, we observed that body habitat exhibits a strong bound but
non-unique microbial structural patterns. Meanwhile, human microbiome reveals
different degree of structural variations over body habitat and host gender. In
summary, our ensemble clustering framework could efficiently explore integrated
clustering results to accurately identify microbial communities, and provide a
comprehensive view for a set of microbial communities. Such trends depict an
integrated biography of microbial communities, which offer a new insight
towards uncovering pathogenic model of human microbiome.Comment: BMC Systems Biology 201
Oversampling for Imbalanced Learning Based on K-Means and SMOTE
Learning from class-imbalanced data continues to be a common and challenging
problem in supervised learning as standard classification algorithms are
designed to handle balanced class distributions. While different strategies
exist to tackle this problem, methods which generate artificial data to achieve
a balanced class distribution are more versatile than modifications to the
classification algorithm. Such techniques, called oversamplers, modify the
training data, allowing any classifier to be used with class-imbalanced
datasets. Many algorithms have been proposed for this task, but most are
complex and tend to generate unnecessary noise. This work presents a simple and
effective oversampling method based on k-means clustering and SMOTE
oversampling, which avoids the generation of noise and effectively overcomes
imbalances between and within classes. Empirical results of extensive
experiments with 71 datasets show that training data oversampled with the
proposed method improves classification results. Moreover, k-means SMOTE
consistently outperforms other popular oversampling methods. An implementation
is made available in the python programming language.Comment: 19 pages, 8 figure
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