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Rapid Microbe Detection Using Deep Learning

Microbes are microscopic organisms invisible to the naked eye with a significant role in everyday life. The ability to detect and accurately classify them is essential to discover diseases, prescribe medication, keep a healthy lifestyle in general. The main goal of this thesis is develop a deep learning method that can in a fast and accurate way detect a microbial species from short fragments of that species. The architecture was based on a novel NLP architecture called the Transformer, adapted to the microbe detection task and used to obtain compressed representations of the sequenced DNA fragments. Once the compressed representation were found, different classification methods were applied to output predictions of microbial species.

bioinformatics ; microbe detection ; deep learning ; attention ; transformers ; triplet loss ; classification

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