Understanding the RDP's Bayesian classifier for 16S rRNA genes (CC268)
Channel: Riffomonas Project
Date: 2024-03-25

The RDP's Naive Bayesian Classifier has been a popular tool for classifying 16S rRNA gene sequences. It has been implemented in a number of other tools. Because we are going to be building our phyloyper package around this algorithm, it is important that we understand how the algorithm works. In this episode I go through the results of the benchmarking that were presented in the paper and then move on to break down the algorithm.


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0:00 Introduction
1:43 What is classification and how is it done?
6:51 The Naive Bayesian Classifier Results
16:02 The Naive Bayesian Classifier Algorithm
27:48 Game plan