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This website aims to provide information about machine learning terms glossary within the H3ABioNet consortium, by introducing the ML jargon and explaining it using very simple terms and including examples from the biomedical research field. We believe this Glossary will help folks from non computing background get familiar with ML terms and methods in order to enhance the use of ML to answer biological questions.

Biologists no longer rely on traditional laboratories to discover novel biomarkers for a given disease, but make use of the continuously growing genomic datasets that are publicly available to determine the biomarkers. Technologies for capturing data in biology are becoming cheaper and more effective, and this has given rise to a new era of big data in bioinformatics. These large biological datasets can be effectively analysed using machine learning aproaches.

• Introduction to Machine Learning
• Supervised Learning
• Unsupervised Learning
• Semi-supervised Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
• Preprocessing
• Assessing model performance
• Comparison of programming languages
• Choosing the right estimator

You can use the buttons at the top of the page to navigate through the Glossary different terms, or the side panel to access the subsections within each.

This ML glossary repo was forked from this H3ABioNet-SOPs repo. Contributions are welcome! To do so, open an issue or a pull request. Additionally, check out our contribution guide.

Funding

The H3ABioNet Machine Learning Glossary was developped by the H3ABioNet Machine Learning and Big Data project members. The development of is supported by the H3Africa program grant U24HG006941 from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) entitled “H3ABioNet: Informatics Solutions for H3Africa”. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.