Discovering Novel Biological Traits From Images Using Phylogeny-Guided Neural Networks

1 code implementation • 5 Jun 2023 • Mohannad Elhamod, Mridul Khurana, Harish Babu Manogaran, Josef C. Uyeda, Meghan A. Balk, Wasila Dahdul, Yasin Bakış, Henry L. Bart Jr., Paula M. Mabee, Hilmar Lapp, James P. Balhoff, Caleb Charpentier, David Carlyn, Wei-Lun Chao, Charles V. Stewart, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Anuj Karpatne

Discovering evolutionary traits that are heritable across species on the tree of life (also referred to as a phylogenetic tree) is of great interest to biologists to understand how organisms diversify and evolve.

Image Generation

Presence-absence reasoning for evolutionary phenotypes

no code implementations • 14 Oct 2014 • James P. Balhoff, T. Alexander Dececchi, Paula M. Mabee, Hilmar Lapp

Nearly invariably, phenotypes are reported in the scientific literature in meticulous detail, utilizing the full expressivity of natural language.