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BIOINFORMATICS
卷 35, 期 18, 页码 3224-3231出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btz059
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- National Institutes of Health [R01GM121994, R01-DK099023, R01-GM093825, R01-NS108151, PF-17-135-01]
- American Cancer Society
- Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, through the Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program [W81XH-16-1-0153]
Motivation: Optimal growth temperature is a fundamental characteristic of all living organisms. Knowledge of this temperature is central to the study of a prokaryote, the thermal stability and temperature dependent activity of its genes, and the bioprospecting of its genome for thermally adapted proteins. While high throughput sequencing methods have dramatically increased the availability of genomic information, the growth temperatures of the source organisms are often unknown. This limits the study and technological application of these species and their genomes. Here, we present a novel method for the prediction of growth temperatures of prokaryotes using only genomic sequences. Results: By applying the reverse ecology principle that an organism's genome includes identifiable adaptations to its native environment, we can predict a species' optimal growth temperature with an accuracy of 5.17 degrees C root-mean-square error and a coefficient of determination of 0.835. The accuracy can be further improved for specific taxonomic clades or by excluding psychrophiles. This method provides a valuable tool for the rapid calculation of organism growth temperature when only the genome sequence is known.
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