Reposted by Lucy Dillon
New paper out in Bioinformatics! PanForest uses random forests to predict gene presence/absence in bacterial genomes based on other genes present. Joint work with Alan Beavan & Maria Rosa Domingo-Sananes.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag005
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PanForest: predicting genes in genomes using random forests
AbstractMotivation. The presence or absence of some genes in a genome can influence whether other genes are likely to be present or absent. Understanding t