Novel machine learning-based approach to identify viral biomarkers of human respiratory emissions from oral and nasal metagenomes

May 18, 2026

Authors: Krista Wigginton,

To make environmental sampling more effective for virus detection, MCIDT Affiliate Krista Wigginton and team applied machine learning to respiratory metagenomes and identified stable viral biomarkers.

Key Terms: Human Microbiome Project; environmental monitoring; human respiratory emissions; human respiratory viruses; machine learning; respiratory biomarkers