Monday, September 19, 2022
Computer scientists pioneer method to determine taxonomic relationships
At the Cheriton School of Computer Science, researchers are using unsupervised machine learning to determine taxonomic relationships between organisms.
Lila Kari, a professor of computer science, along with her PhD students Pablo Millán Arias and Fatemeh Alipour and her colleague Professor Kathleen Hill at Western University’s Department of Biology pioneered this new method, titled Deep Learning for Unsupervised Clustering of DNA Sequences, or DeLUCS for short.