Phenotype Inference from Text and Genomic Data.

We describe ProTraits, a machine learning pipeline that systematically annotates microbes with phenotypes using a large amount of textual data from scientific literature and other online resources, as well as genome sequencing data. Moreover, by relying on a multi-view non-negative matrix factorization approach, ProTraits pipeline is also able to discover novel phenotypic concepts from unstructured text. We present the main components of the developed pipeline and outline challenges for the application to other fields.