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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Using machine learning to identify and classify deadly astroviruses

photo of Professor Lila Kari and Fatemeh Alipour

A team of researchers at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, along with their colleagues at Western University, have successfully classified 191 previously unidentified astroviruses using a new machine learning-enabled classification process.

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Some extremophiles have similar genomic signatures even though they are unrelated

photo of Professor Lila Kari and Pablo Millán Arias

Extremophiles are species that are adapted to live at the edges of biological tolerance, in a range of environments that seem inhospitable to life by human standards. These extremely hardy organisms are found in all three domains and all six kingdoms of life, the highest and second highest levels of classification biologists use to categorize living things based on common ancestry.

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