Pfizer’s AI Approach: A Business Strategy for a Digital World
At Pfizer, AI plays a key role in every step of the drug discovery process, Anastasia Christianson, Global Head of AI, ML, Analytics, and Data at Pfizer, tells Stan Gloss on the latest episode of the Trends from the Trenches podcast. Christianson lists the areas at Pfizer where AI is in play and for which […]
Culmination Bio’s Casey Frankenberger on Building an Infrastructure to Analyze one of the Largest Healthcare Datasets in the World
Welcome to our podcast, hosted by Stan Gloss, Co-Founder and Fellow at BioTeam. In this podcast series, we discuss the latest trends in data science within life sciences organizations, and the technologies and strategies they are deploying to support innovation. Casey Frankenberger is Senior Vice President, Head of Data at Culmination Bio. He is joined […]
AWS ParallelCluster & R Studio (Posit) Workbench: Scalable Web Notebooks for Data Scientists
This webinar discussed how to integrate Posit Workbench with AWS ParallelCluster so that user IDE and data science web notebook sessions are spawned on ParallelCluster compute fleet nodes.
Increase usage of FHIR data standards to expand the breadth and depth of clinical research
The data science department of a national government organization was assigned the task of providing a secure and reliable clinical IT infrastructure and a variety of IT and scientific computing services to its community in support of mission-critical clinical research.
Buildout of a Dedicated Scientific IT Office
A national government organization approached BioTeam to help them understand how the organization and the IT department could better meet scientists’ needs. They faced several challenges.
Kjiersten Fagnan on the JGI’s Genome Citation Service That Tracks Genomes Across Research
Kjiersten Fagnan is an applied mathematician enamored of biology’s messy datasets. Now, as chief informatics officer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI), she finds bioinformatics’ computational and data challenges very different from applied math or partial differential equations. Fagnan is the newest guest on the Trends from the Trenches podcast, speaking with […]
Design, Deploy, and Support a National Scientific Research Network and High-Performance Computing Environment
A federal government agency was having problems supporting many research laboratories across the U.S., each with significant, growing computational requirements and aging infrastructure. The agency knew that to fulfill its mission into the future, it needed to address these problems.
Using Machine Learning to Automatically and Accurately Characterize Retinal Images
Automatic Characterization of Retina OCT Images To help our client with their Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) image characterization needs, BioTeam worked with their researchers to develop an OCT segmentation software to automate the processing and segmentation of porcine retinal OCT images. BioTeam used machine learning (ML) techniques that have previously been shown to successfully segment […]
BioTeam Workshops and Presentations at Bio-IT World Conference and Expo, May 16-18, 2023 in Boston
Tuesday, May 16 8-10am, Workshop: W1 Machine Learning as a Tool for Biomedical Research Anna Sowa, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Consultant Jordan Ramsdell, Scientific Consultant Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool for biomedical research in recent years. With the ability to analyze vast amounts of complex data sets, ML can help researchers uncover patterns […]
CEO Andrew Hopkins on Exscientia’s AI-Driven Approach to Modern Drug Discovery
The steel industry is not a common birthplace of biotech companies, but Andrew Hopkins traces the ideas that became Exscientia back to his time there. New technologies and new processes replaced nearly 90% of the steel workforce, and Hopkins kept those market lessons. He says, “When I ended up in pharma and biotech, I had […]
