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They usually come in plain colors, typically blue, with red, black and white also popular. Though nowadays, happi can come in all colors of the rainbow with designs increasingly taken from popular culture including anime and manga.
Usually happi coats have symbols printed on the lapels or heri. These can be the name of the festival or participating association. On the back the traditional kanji for matsuri (祭 festival) often appears.
Historically speaking happi coats are a type of uniform. Identical coats were worn to identify a specific, homogeneous group, such as the retainers of a feudal daimyo, workers in a guild or fire-fighters.
Taiko groups often wear happi coats combined with a hachimaki or headband. Yosakoi dancers also wear a kind of happi coat, but it is longer and comes down to the knees, whereas the traditional happi stops just below the waist.
You will also often see them worn at large trade fairs and exhibitions where representatives promote their products. Indeed happi are becoming as much associated with business and commerce as festivals. Members of the same company, school, sports team or university will don happi coats for special events.
Staff at izakaya may also be seen in happi as they present a festive, lively atmosphere, working in a place where people can let their hair down and have a good time. The message is, of course, be happi!
Recovering metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from shotgun sequencing data is an increasingly common task in microbiome studies, as MAGs provide deeper insight into the functional potential of both culturable and non-culturable microorganisms. However, metagenome-assembled genomes vary in quality and may contain omissions and contamination. These errors present challenges for detecting genes and comparing gene enrichment across sample types. To address this, we propose happi, an approach to testing hypotheses about gene enrichment that accounts for genome quality. We illustrate the advantages of happi over existing approaches using published Saccharibacteria MAGs, Streptococcus thermophilus MAGs, and via simulation.
Different methods identified different differentially present genes. Out of 713 COG functions tested, happi identified 176 differentially present genes when controlling false discovery rate (FDR) at the 5% level; GLM-LRT identified 219 genes; and GLM-Rao identified 175 genes. Out of the 176 genes identified as differentially present by happi, all 176 genes were also identified by GLM-LRT as differentially present and 166 genes were identified by GLM-Rao as differentially present.
To investigate the biological plausibility of the results from each method, we assessed the number of core genes that were identified as differentially present. [18] identified 172 COG functions in the TM7 core genome, and because core genes are genes that are present in most genomes of a particular clade, we consider differentially present core genes to be false positives. Controlling FDR at 5%, happi identified 6 out of 172 core genes to be differentially present; GLM-LRT identified 10 genes; and GLM-Rao identified 7 genes. While this difference is not substantial, we consider this reduction in the number of false positives to be an advantage of happi.
Our proposed method calculated lower p-values for 16% and 29% of genera compared to GLM-LRT and GLM-Rao. We show results from 6 specific model estimates in Fig. 1: 3 core genes for which happi produced greater p-values than GLM-Rao (upper panels; we believe these signals to be truly null), and 3 accessory genes for which it produced smaller p-values than GLM-Rao (lower panels). In all instances where happi produced greater p-values than GLM-Rao, non-detections generally occurred in genomes with low mean coverage. GLM-Rao does not account for coverage information, and so unlike happi, it can conflate gene absence with non-detections due to quality. We believe that statements about significance should be moderated when detection patterns can be attributable to quality variables and therefore that it is reasonable that p-values are larger in these three cases. In contrast, happi produced smaller p-values than GLM-Rao in instances when non-detections occurred for greater coverage MAGs, or broadly across the range of MAG coverage (lower panels). In these instances, differences in detection are less likely to be attributable to quality factors, and it is reasonable that the significance of findings can be strengthened by including data on quality variables.
We also investigated the sensitivity of the results of happi to different choices of \(\varepsilon\), the probability of observing a gene given that it is truly absent (Additional file 1: S2). For specific genes of interest, we encourage users to investigate plausible levels of \(\varepsilon\) to confirm the robustness of their results to this hyperparameter. In general, we recommend choosing \(\varepsilon\) based on genome redundancy metrices or based on other tuning parameters for MAG construction. We discourage further exploration of genes whose significantly differential presence hinges on the assumption of low genome contamination levels and is not robust across small increases in \(\varepsilon\).
We investigate the performance of methods for testing for differential gene presence under simulation. (left) We find that logistic regression methods (e.g., GLM-Rao) do not control type 1 error, while happi-np controls type 1 error at nominal levels for all sample sizes. Additionally, we find that happi-a controls type 1 error for large sample sizes (\(n=100\)) and lower correlation between quality variables and the covariate of interest (\(\sigma _x=0.5\)). (right) For tests that control error rates at nominal levels, we evaluate the power of happi-np and happi-a to reject a false null hypothesis, finding that happi-a has slightly higher power than happi-np at sample size \(n=100\). We find that power increases for all methods as sample sizes and effect sizes grow, but decreases with greater correlation between quality variables and the covariate of interest
We show the power of happi-np and happi-a to correctly reject a null hypothesis at the 5% level in Fig. 2 (right panels). We do not evaluate power for GLM-Rao and GLM-LRT because they have uncontrolled type 1 error rates, making them invalid tests. Similarly, we do not evaluate the power for happi-a for all sample sizes, because it does not control type 1 error rates for \(n=50\) and below. We observe that the power of happi-np to reject a false null hypothesis increases with the effect size and sample size but decreases with greater correlation between \(M_i\) and \(X_i1\). Stated differently, happi-np has low power to detect true associations between gene presence and covariates of interest when covariates are correlated with genome quality, though this can be remedied with larger sample sizes. Furthermore, we see that when \(n=100\) and \(\sigma _x = 0.5\), happi-a similarly has increased power with increasing effect size while maintaining slightly higher power than happi-np to reject a false null hypothesis.
Taken together, these results show that happi is robust to potential correlation between covariates of interest and genome quality. This is not the case for logistic regression-based methods, which cannot distinguish between differential gene presence due to genome quality and differential gene presence due to associations with covariates. No method will perform well under the alternative with small sample sizes and high correlation (see Fig. 2, third panel), but happi has some power for large sample sizes and large effect sizes in this setting and controls type 1 error at nominal levels regardless of the sample size. By using a simulation framework based on an empirically informed data generation structure, we demonstrate the disadvantages of using methods that do not account for differential genome quality. However, we note that in some settings (e.g., very deep short-read sequencing combined with short-read assembly) our assumption that the probability of gene detection increases with genome coverage may not hold [22]. We investigate the performance of happi under this form of model misspecification in Additional file 1: S3 and Fig. S2.
Many tools exist to study associations between microbial genome variation and microbial or host phenotypes [23,24,25,26,27]. Studies investigating the association between microbial genomes and phenotypes are often referred to as microbial genome-wide association studies (mGWAS) [28, 29]. Most mGWAS tools have been developed for the analysis of pure microbial isolates, and do not account for differential genome quality in genomes analyzed collectively. mGWAS tools may be better-suited when the hypothesized causal direction is that the presence of genetic features gives rise to a phenotypic characteristic, and not the reverse. In this paper, we propose and validate a novel method (happi) to understand how non-microbial variation (e.g., environmental variation) is associated with microbial genome variation. The implied direction of modeling is reversed in our model compared to mGWAS models: our response variable is gene presence rather than phenotype. This allows interrogation of questions about factors influencing selection pressures on genomes, rather than questions about the impact of the microbiome on phenotypic outcomes.
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