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

μ-Benzene-1,2,4,5-tetra­carboxyl­ato-κ4 O 1,O 2:O 4,O 5-bis­[diaqua(phen­an­thro­line-κ2 N,N′)nickel(II)] 0.67-hydrate

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, [Ni2(C10H2O8)(C12H8N2)2(H2O)4]·0.67H2O, contains one complete binuclear complex and one half-mol­ecule, the latter being completed by crystallographic inversion symmetry, and 0.67 of a solvent water molecule. Each Ni2+ cation is coordinated by a 1,10-phenanthroline ligand, a bidentate benzene-1,2,4,5-tetra­carboxyl­ate (btec) tetra-anion and two water mol­ecules to generate a distorted cis-NiN2O4 octa­hedral coordination geometry. The btec species bridges the metal ions. In the crystal, the clusters and uncoordinated water mol­ecules are linked by O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and π–π inter­actions [shortest centroid–centroid separation = 3.596 (2) Å] to form a three-dimensional network