Utilization of a natural language processing-based approach to determine the composition of artifact residues.

Journal: BMC bioinformatics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Determining the composition of artifact residues is a central problem in ancient residue metabolomics. This is done by comparing mass spectral features in common with an experimental artifact and an ancient artifact (standard method). While this method is simple and straightforward, we sought to increase the accuracy of predicting which plant species had been used in which artifacts.

Authors

  • Tung Tho Nguyen
    Department of Mathematics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA. nguyenthotung@gmail.com.
  • Korey J Brownstein
    Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA. korey.brownstein@usda.gov.