Anita C. Schürch

Anita C. Schürch

An ML classifier for A. baumanii plasmids

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Update August 2021: The A.baumannii model is now integrated in mlplasmids

Alessia Carrara, an Erasmus exchange master student from the University of Milan, did her internship with Sergio Arredondo Alonso and me. The topic of her thesis was “A Machine Learning classifier for A. baumannii plasmids”. She gave a presentation about her work at the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC) seminar.

recording of seminar

Thank you Alessia!

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