The Evolution of Imitation Without Cultural Transmission

no code implementations • 20 Jul 2021 • Lee Altenberg, Susanne Still, Christopher J. Watkins

We find that during a period of directional selection towards a phenotypic optimum, natural selection favors modifiers which cause an organism to bias its plastic phenotype in the direction opposite to the mean phenotype of the population -- anti-imitation.

Classification of crystallization outcomes using deep convolutional neural networks

2 code implementations • 27 Mar 2018 • Andrew E. Bruno, Patrick Charbonneau, Janet Newman, Edward H. Snell, David R. So, Vincent Vanhoucke, Christopher J. Watkins, Shawn Williams, Julie Wilson

The Machine Recognition of Crystallization Outcomes (MARCO) initiative has assembled roughly half a million annotated images of macromolecular crystallization experiments from various sources and setups.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Classification +1