AI spots hidden behavior patterns in self-organizing bacteria (VIDEO)

Rice University

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Movie comparing Myxococcus xanthus strains with different motility systems: wild type, impaired social motility and impaired adventurous motility. Time-lapse microscopy shows how self-organization patterns diverge during development, while a custom deep-learning model maps each trajectory into a shared feature space and pairs each frame with AI-generated reconstructions.

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Jiangguo Zhang/Rice University

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