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Open/upcoming Master’s student positions

💬 Naive Bayes for naïve bae-s

Developing a text mining approach for pathogen metadata classification

The project: Pathogens in the Bacillus cereus group can cause a variety of illnesses in humans, including deadly anthrax and anthrax-like illnesses, mild-to-severe foodborne illnesses, and severe non-gastrointestinal infections. We recently developed a database of B. cereus group genomes, which can be used to improve pathogen surveillance and outbreak response efforts. In addition to genomic data, our database contains standardized, manually curated metadata denoting where, when, and how each strain was isolated...which took multiple curators a YEAR to clean up! Can you train a model to help us automate the process and help laboratories around the world detect and solve outbreaks?

Required educational background: Computer science and related disciplines with natural language processing/text mining experience.

Required programming skills: Python