Computationally classifying fungal lifestyles
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 09:22
in Biology & Nature
As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that "taught" a computer how to classify 101 representative genomes of Dothideomycetes, the largest class of fungi, by lifestyles. The machine "learned" to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced species.