“Imageomics is coming of age and is ready for its first major discoveries,” Berger-Wolf said in an interview before the meeting.
Imageomics is a new interdisciplinary scientific field focused on using machine learning tools to understand the biology of organisms, particularly biological traits, from images.
One major area of study that is coming to fruition involves how phenotypes—the observable traits of animals that can be seen in images—are related to their genome, the DNA sequence that produces these traits.
“We are on the cusp of understanding the direct connections of observable phenotype to genotype,” she said.
“There’s a lot of good that will come from imageomics in the coming years,” Berger-Wolf said.
Imageomics poised to enable new understanding of life
Wow, news to me and I am surprised it is doable.