Computational Biology Research Group

Recent Updates

Last Updated on 25/12/2021

• Our work on Accurate plant disease classification with transfer learning based on leaf images has been accepted for the 16th IEEE conference on Industrial and Automation Systems (ICIIS 2021)
• Our group members will be conducting a workshop on Explainable Machine Learning at ICIIS 2021.
• Our group members will be inovled in a workshop on Feature Engineering in Machine Learning at ICIET 2021.
• Our work on Machine Learning for detecting alzhemizers disease using Next Generation Sequencing Data has been accepted for the IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Financial Automation Systems (ICIAFS ) 2021
• We have been awarded a University of Peradeniya Researh Grant to work further on the project “Counting the uncountable : Estimating species richness from metavirome data”
• Our systematic review titled “Machine learning for plant microRNA prediction: A systematic review” is now available as a preprint.
• Our work miRNAFinder: A Comprehensive Web Resource for Plant Pre-microRNA Classification is now available as a preprint
• Our work on Crop disease detection with Deep learning has been accepted for an oral presentation at iPURSE 2021. Further work on the project is up at https://damayanthiherath.github.io/leaf-disease-classification/ We will be organizing a special session on data engineering for biology and medicine at ICIAFS conference 2021.

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Presentations/Talks

• Sandali Lokuge