Keeping up with the genomes: efficient learning of our increasing knowledge of the tree of life

Abstract Background It is a computational challenge for current metagenomic classifiers to keep up with the pace of training data generated from genome sequencing projects, such as the exponentially-growing NCBI RefSeq bacterial genome database. When new reference sequences are added to training dat...

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Main Authors: Zhengqiao Zhao, Alexandru Cristian, Gail Rosen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-09-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-020-03744-7