Machine learning for phytopathology: from the molecular scale towards the network scale.

Journal: Briefings in bioinformatics
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Abstract

With the increasing volume of high-throughput sequencing data from a variety of omics techniques in the field of plant-pathogen interactions, sorting, retrieving, processing and visualizing biological information have become a great challenge. Within the explosion of data, machine learning offers powerful tools to process these complex omics data by various algorithms, such as Bayesian reasoning, support vector machine and random forest. Here, we introduce the basic frameworks of machine learning in dissecting plant-pathogen interactions and discuss the applications and advances of machine learning in plant-pathogen interactions from molecular to network biology, including the prediction of pathogen effectors, plant disease resistance protein monitoring and the discovery of protein-protein networks. The aim of this review is to provide a summary of advances in plant defense and pathogen infection and to indicate the important developments of machine learning in phytopathology.

Authors

  • Yansu Wang
    Postdoctoral Innovation Practice Base, Shenzhen Polytechnic, China.
  • Murong Zhou
    Shenzhen University, China.
  • Quan Zou
  • Lei Xu
    Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.