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Biology software isn't bad. You just haven't found the good stuff.
A little under two years ago, I wrote a post titled “Biology software is bad because biologists like bad software.” It may seem like this week’s title…
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2024 will be my year of the mundane (again)
I could've kicked off 2024 with a listicle of the top 10 ways that LLMs will revolutionize drug discovery this year.
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Is it an AI scientist or a Potato?
Potato (yes, that’s its name), a startup building “Autonomous agents for science,” recently announced a $4.5M funding round. This is big sign of…
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A new phase for Merelogic
A little over a year ago, I started a company called Merelogic with the goal of helping biotech startups do a better job of managing and leveraging…
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Is biotech data driven?
One of the things that I’ve struggled with since I started working in biotech, and that a lot of the folks I talk to struggle with as well, is…
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Did a foundation model just solve virtual small molecule screening?
Last week, a team of researchers at MIT, with support from Recursion, published a new foundation model called Boltz-2 that a lot of people are very…
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Can you model biology mechanistically?
As part of the new direction that I’ve been taking this newsletter in, I’ve been exploring a bunch of different scientific applications of AI in pharma…
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The race begins for an FDA-approved AI toxicity model
The FDA recently announced that they’re working on phasing out animal testing requirements in favor of “AI-based computational models”, at least for…
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Directory structures are the Excel of file organization
No, I'm not having a stroke.
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Biology software is bad because biologists like bad software
OK, not *all* biologists.
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Start normalizing data driven biotech
*** A quick plug: I recently sat down for a Q&A session with the folks at Ganymede and they posted the interview on their blog.
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What is a foundation model?
*** Quick question before we start: Would you be interested joining a peer group of 6-8 people from similar biotech data roles/levels?
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