Encoding Question

[MachineLearning]

Can someone tell me about the kind of data representation that
OpenBiomind has to handle? I am interested in extending OpenBiomind to
support 1-2 different types of neural networks but my concern is about
special encoding requirements needed to present input to the network.
I understand the standard techniques for converting data to numerical
values (when needed) and performing normalization but does biological
data have any special requirements?

[Ben Goertzel]

OpenBiomind has its own particular data format, which is described in
the OpenBiomind online docs, but there's nothing super-special about
it. Lucio could fill you in on the details.

Normalizing and "de-noising" biological data is often a **big deal**
-- a "black art" as they say -- and is particular to each type of data
...

For instance, if you want to apply OpenBiomind to MEG data, a lot of
the work will be figuring out the right preliminary transformations to
perform on the MEG data before feeding it into OpenBiomind...

We spent a lot of time playing with approaches to microarray data
normalization...

ben goertzel

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