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It is no secret that people are fond of classifying everything. Biology is no exception. It is a lot easier to study living beings if we have a system that separates them into specific groups. There exist a lot of characteristics and methods which can be used for the purpose of classification. In this book, we will discuss a number of classification methods based on genome sequences. However, before we start describing these methods, it may be useful to illustrate a few classic approaches to classification by the example of microorganisms.
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Bolshoy, A., Volkovich, Z.(., Kirzhner, V., Barzily, Z. (2010). Biological Classification. In: Genome Clustering. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 286. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12952-0_2
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