Standardising a microbiome pipeline for body fluid identification from complex crime scene stains
Meghna Swayambhu, Mario Gysi, Cordula Haas, Larissa Schuh, Larissa Walser, Fardin Javanmard, Tamara Flury, Sarah Ahannach, Sarah Lebeer, Eirik Nataas Hanssen, Lars Gustav Snipen, Nicholas A. Bokulich, Rolf Kümmerli, Natasha Arora
This study develops a random forest classifier to identify body fluids from complex crime scene stains using microbiome data, achieving an F1 score of 0.89 on forensic samples.
bioRxiv · Aug 5, 2024 · PreprintBioinformatics