A new approach with artificial neural network (ANN) was applied to numerical taxonomy of bacteria using the oxalate as carbon and energy source. For this aim the characters effective in differentiating separate groups were selected from morphological, physiological and biochemical test results. Fourteen aerobic, Gram-negative, oxalate-utilizing isolates and four oxalate-utilizing reference strains (Ralstonia eutropha DSM 428, Methylobacterium extorquens DSM 1337T, Ralstonia oxalatica DSM 1105T, Oxalicibacterium flavum DSM 15506T) were included in the study. ANN program used here was developed in Borland C++ language. Iterations were performed on an IBM compatible PC computer. ANN architecture having feed-forward backpropagation algorithm was used for teaching generalized delta rule. The results show that ANN can have a large potential in solving the taxonomic problems of oxalate-utilizing bacteria.

OFM4 Biyoloji Egitimi Egitim Fakultesi Mugla University 48170 Kotekli Mugla Turkey

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