What are decision trees?

Nat Biotechnol. 2008 Sep;26(9):1011-3. doi: 10.1038/nbt0908-1011.

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?

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Biomedical Research / instrumentation
  • Biomedical Research / methods
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • Decision Making, Computer-Assisted
  • Decision Support Techniques*
  • Decision Trees*
  • Genome, Fungal
  • Genome, Human
  • Humans
  • Models, Statistical
  • Neural Networks, Computer
  • Protein Interaction Mapping
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae / genetics