Kenyon R G, Ferguson E V, Ward A C
Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Zentralbl Bakteriol. 1997 Jan;285(2):267-77. doi: 10.1016/s0934-8840(97)80034-5.
Pyrolysis mass spectrometry is a data rich analysis technique now becoming widely applied in microbiology. Data analysis is a key step in the exploitation of the technique and the application of neural network analysis to pyrolysis mass spectrometric data offers new opportunities for classification, identification and inter-strain comparison of microorganisms in biotechnology and clinical microbiology. The use of a supervised neural network for the identification of members of a streptomycete species-group is described.
