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Scaling Biotech 2024 Wrap-up

Reader question: What would you ask an LLM when selecting software?

Can you trust AI to clean your data?

If you want something done right...

The problem with an AI computational biologist isn't the AI

Another look at generative AI

Track your lab data from when it's just an idea.

Handoffs should have staging areas

OK, but what IS an ELN?

Do you know what decisions you're making?

The two modes of biotech data

It takes a village

Introducing the Biotech Reference Stack

Categories are about the what, but the how matters too.

Where do you meet your users?

This is the middle school of emerging software markets

Software categories come from nails, not hammers

We need to have a talk about (design) philosophy

Monolithic biotech software is a market problem

There are no snowflakes in biotech

A new phase for Merelogic

Are you looking for a drill or a hole in your wall?

Biology software isn't bad. You just haven't found the good stuff.

Are meta-decisions getting in your way?

Sometimes, breadcrumbs are enough

Do you have a "trust but verify" budget?

On AI and Information Theory (aka the obligatory LLMs post)

Do you have "hurry up and wait" problems?

Your experiments need names

Stop missing the bus

Hit dashboards may feel easy but they're not

Beware the long tail of orthogonal assays

Reader question: Ads?

The bottom line is too far away

You don't need a platform to be data driven

Are you safe or are you comfortable?

How much is your time worth?

Start normalizing data driven biotech

Is biotech data driven?

Biotech data is a three-dimensional problem

Deadlines are not just manager mind tricks

Time for automation? It's less common than you think...

You have a process, you just don't know what it is

There's more to keep track of than just the answer.

Running an analysis job is more than just running analysis

Biotech startups are the craft brewers of data generation

The 3 reasons infrastructure projects fail

The 3 things data infrastructure needs to do

2024 will be my year of the mundane (again)