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Rules

Click here to download the SITVIT2 binary rules.
Click here to download the Decision Tree rules.
Click here to download the Evolutionary Algorithm/Binary Masks rules.
Please note that for programming reasons, the number 0 indicates the presence of spacer,
while the number 1 indicates the absence of spacer for the rules used in the decision tree and the evolutionary algorithm.
Click here to visualize RuleTB rules (prediction using 24-loci MIRU-VNTR data).
Details regarding RuleTB rules are provided in Tables 3 and 7 of the manuscript by Thain et al., 2019.

Context

Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) includes several members as described in the following publications (among others):

• Brosch et al., 2002
• van Ingen et al., 2012
• Riojas et al., 2018
• Lipworth et al., 2019

Information on Spoligotyping can be retrieved from the publication from Kamerbeek et al., 1997.
Information on 24-loci MIRU-VNTR can be found in the publication by Supply et al., 2006.
Information on various versions of SpolDB/SITVIT databases could be found in the following publications:

• Sola et al., 1999
• Sola et al., 2001
• Filliol et al., 2003
• Brudey et al., 2006
• Demay et al., 2012
• Couvin et al., 2019