Hierarchical AI enables global interpretation of culture plates in the era of digital microbiology

This dataset consists of a zip containing all the colony images, and a metadata file describing the images and how they relate to each other.The metadata.json file contains the list of colony images (the key is the filename without the extension). Each item has the following informationfilename: the filename of the colony image (can be found in Dataset.zip)plate_n: the plate to which the image belongsspecies: the ground truth species of the colony represented in the image</ul