Reliable genomic strategies for species classification of plant genetic resources

A. van Bemmelen van der Plaat*, R. van Treuren, T.J.L. van Hintum

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Abstract

Background: To address the need for easy and reliable species classification in plant genetic resources collections, we assessed the potential of five classifiers (Random Forest, Neighbour-Joining, 1-Nearest Neighbour, a conservative variety of 3-Nearest Neighbours and Naive Bayes) We investigated the effects of the number of accessions per species and misclassification rate on classification success, and validated theirs generic value results with three complete datasets.
Results: We found the conservative variety of 3-Nearest Neighbours to be the most reliable classifier when varying species representation and misclassification rate. Through the analysis of the three complete datasets, this finding showed generic value. Additionally, we present various options for marker selection for classification taks such as these.
Conclusions: Large-scale genomic data are increasingly being produced for genetic resources collections. These data are useful to address species classification issues regarding crop wild relatives, and improve genebank documentation. Implementation of a classification method that can improve the quality of bad datasets without gold standard training data is considered an innovative and efficient method to improve gene bank documentation.
Original languageEnglish
Article number173
Number of pages18
JournalBMC Bioinformatics
Volume22
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Mar 2021

Keywords

  • Crop wild relatives
  • Gene bank documentation
  • Genomics
  • Machine learning
  • Plant genetic resources
  • Species classification

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