Classification of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells by a backpropagation network

In this paper we show how a Backpropagation neural network is used to classify between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. The classification is based on their DNA (Deoxyribonuclei) sequences which are obtained from different databases available on the Internet. The sequences are first preprocessed using a sliding window technique to obtain sub-sequence frequencies, and then normalised to make them comparable.