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These associations shed light on using gut microbiome data to distinguish case and control samples of a specific disease, which is also called host disease status classification. Importantly, using learning-based models to distinguish the disease and control samples is expected to identify important biomarkers more accurately than abundance-based statistical analysis. However, available tools have not fully addressed two challenges associated with this task: limited labeled microbiome data and decreased accuracy in cross-studies. The confounding factors, such as the diet, technical biases in sample collection\/sequencing across different studies\/cohorts often jeopardize the generalization of the learning model.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To address these challenges, we develop a new tool GDmicro, which combines semi-supervised learning and domain adaptation to achieve a more generalized model using limited labeled samples. We evaluated GDmicro on human gut microbiome data from 11 cohorts covering 5 different diseases. The results show that GDmicro has better performance and robustness than state-of-the-art tools. In particular, it improves the AUC from 0.783 to 0.949 in identifying inflammatory bowel disease. Furthermore, GDmicro can identify potential biomarkers with greater accuracy than abundance-based statistical analysis methods. 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