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Automatic identification of species with neural networks

Neural networks identify species

November 4, 2014

Automatic identification of species with neural networks

Researchers have developed an automated system to recognize fish, plant, and butterfly species from photographic images. The system has demonstrated high accuracy of over 90% for data sets of over 11,000 individuals from 740 species -

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November 20, 2014

Unexpected cross-species contamination in genome sequencing projects

Samier Merchant, Derrick E. Wood, Steven L. Salzberg

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.675 PubMed 25426337

November 4, 2014

Unipro UGENE NGS pipelines and components for variant calling, RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data analyses

Olga Golosova, Ross Henderson, Yuriy Vaskin, Andrei Gabrielian, German Grekhov, Vijayaraj Nagarajan, Andrew J. Oler, Mariam Quiñones, Darrell Hurt, Mikhail Fursov, Yentram Huyen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.644 PubMed 25392756

November 13, 2014

Beyond xMOOCs in healthcare education: study of the feasibility in integrating virtual patient systems and MOOC platforms

Natalia Stathakarou, Nabil Zary, Andrzej A. Kononowicz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.672 PubMed 25405078

November 6, 2014

Structural models for the design of novel antiviral agents against Greek Goat Encephalitis

Louis Papageorgiou, Styliani Loukatou, Vassiliki Lila Koumandou, Wojciech Makałowski, Vasileios Megalooikonomou, Dimitrios Vlachakis, Sophia Kossida

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.664 PubMed 25392762

November 18, 2014

Bioinformatic analysis of cis-regulatory interactions between progesterone and estrogen receptors in breast cancer

Matloob Khushi, Christine L. Clarke, J. Dinny Graham