date:Feb 19, 2019
om the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food Drug Administration, the Minnesota Department of Health, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute.
Almost 3,000 outbreaks of food poisoning were reported in the U.S. from 2009 to 2015. Ninety percent of those outbreaks were caused by different strains of Salmonella bacteria.
The scientists trained the machine, an algorithm they named Random Forest, with more than 1,300 Salmonella Typhimurium genomes with known sources. The m