Classification of Functional Metagenomes Recovered from Different Environmental Samples

Abstract

Classification of functional metagenomes from the microbial community plays the vital role in the metagenomics research. In this paper, an investigation was made to study the performance of beta-t random forest classifier for classification of metagenomics data. Nine key functional meta-genomic variables were selected using the beta-t test statistic from the 10 different microbial community using p-value at 5% level of significance. Then beta-t random forest classifier showed the higher accuracy (96%), true positive rate (96%) and lower false positive rate (5%), false discovery rate (5%) and misclassification error rate (5%) for classification of metagenomes. This method showed the better performance compare to Bayes, SVM, KNN, AdaBoost and LogitBoost).