CAGI Organizers Seek New Methods for PGP Phenotype Prediction Challenge

Jul 23, 2011

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During last week's Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in Vienna, Austria, organizers of the Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation project attempted to drum up interest in the community experiment by highlighting one of the CAGI challenges, which focused on predicting human phenotypes from genomic data.

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