BLOG 2.0: a software system for character‐based species classification with DNA Barcode sequences. What it does, how to use it. (28th January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Weitschek, Emanuel; Van, Robin; Felici, Giovanni; Bertolazzi, Paola
• Is Part Of: Molecular ecology resources. Volume 13:Number 6(2013:Nov.)
• Page Start: 1043
• Page End: 1046
• Publication Date: 2013-01-28
• Subjects: Molecular ecology -- Periodicals; 572.8
• DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12073
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-098X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="men12073-abs-0001"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>BLOG (Barcoding with LOGic) is a diagnostic and character‐based DNA Barcode analysis method. Its aim is to classify specimens to species based on DNA Barcode sequences and on a supervised machine learning approach, using classification rules that compactly characterize species in terms of DNA Barcode locations of key diagnostic nucleotides. The BLOG 2.0 software, its fundamental modules, online/offline user interfaces and recent improvements are described. These improvements affect both methodology and software design, and lead to the availability of different releases on the website http://dmb.iasi.cnr.it/blog-downloads.php. Previous and new experimental tests show that BLOG 2.0 outperforms previous versions as well as other DNA Barcode analysis methods.</p> </abstract>