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Nature Biotechnology 26, 1011 - 1013 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nbt0908-1011
What are decision trees?
Carl Kingsford1 & Steven L Salzberg1
Abstract
Decision trees have been applied to problems such as assigning protein function and predicting splice sites. How do these classifiers work, what types of problems can they solve and what are their advantages over alternatives?
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Carl Kingsford and Steven L. Salzberg are in the Department of Computer Science, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
e-mail: carlk@cs.umd.edu
e-mail: salzberg@umiacs.umd.edu
