[Accelerated method of numerical analysis for the diagnosis of microorganisms: the transpose of a matrix method]

Numeric methods were used to analyse the characteristics of methane oxidizing bacteria in order to reveal descriptors that had a significant effect on the formation of phenones. It was found that descriptors with an equal degree of significance for the organisms being analysed could be assembled into groups by using the method of transposed matrix with the following processing by numeric methods. Poorly reproducible or instrumentally complicated characteristics can be excluded from these groups of descriptors (1 of 2, or 2 of 3), and the organisms would be identified then by using a limited range of characteristics. This technique seems to be appropriate as an accelerated method for diagnostics of methane oxidizing bacteria as well as any other organisms.