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Each of the hundreds of ML models in this work generated a list of ranked features used to make predictions, and we provide the code to generate these lists, in addition to showing them on our website. However, all raw TCGA data and the bioinformatics pipeline necessary to generate such raw outputs from Kraken can be accessed through SevenBridge’s CGC. Raw outputs of Kraken- or SHOGUN-processed TCGA sequencing data comprise hundreds of terabytes of files and are not directly available unless otherwise coordinated with the corresponding author. Pre-processed cancer microbiome data generated and analysed in this study (that is, summarized read counts at the genus taxonomic level) as well as the metadata are available at. This potential microbiome-based oncology diagnostic tool warrants further exploration. In addition, we could discriminate among samples from healthy, cancer-free individuals ( n = 69) and those from patients with multiple types of cancer (prostate, lung, and melanoma 100 samples in total) solely using plasma-derived, cell-free microbial nucleic acids. These TCGA blood signatures remained predictive when applied to patients with stage Ia–IIc cancer and cancers lacking any genomic alterations currently measured on two commercial-grade cell-free tumour DNA platforms, despite the use of very stringent decontamination analyses that discarded up to 92.3% of total sequence data.
Following recent demonstrations that some types of cancer show substantial microbial contributions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, we re-examined whole-genome and whole-transcriptome sequencing studies in The Cancer Genome Atlas 11 (TCGA) of 33 types of cancer from treatment-naive patients (a total of 18,116 samples) for microbial reads, and found unique microbial signatures in tissue and blood within and between most major types of cancer. Systematic characterization of the cancer microbiome provides the opportunity to develop techniques that exploit non-human, microorganism-derived molecules in the diagnosis of a major human disease.
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