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Machine Learning in Biotechnology and Life Sciences

By : Saleh Alkhalifa
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Machine Learning in Biotechnology and Life Sciences

By: Saleh Alkhalifa

Overview of this book

The booming fields of biotechnology and life sciences have seen drastic changes over the last few years. With competition growing in every corner, companies around the globe are looking to data-driven methods such as machine learning to optimize processes and reduce costs. This book helps lab scientists, engineers, and managers to develop a data scientist's mindset by taking a hands-on approach to learning about the applications of machine learning to increase productivity and efficiency in no time. You’ll start with a crash course in Python, SQL, and data science to develop and tune sophisticated models from scratch to automate processes and make predictions in the biotechnology and life sciences domain. As you advance, the book covers a number of advanced techniques in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing using real-world data. By the end of this machine learning book, you'll be able to build and deploy your own machine learning models to automate processes and make predictions using AWS and GCP.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Data
6
Section 2: Developing and Training Models
13
Section 3: Deploying Models to Users

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we made a major stride to cover a respectable portion of the must-know elements of deep learning and neural networks. First, we investigated the roots of neural networks and how they came about and then dove into the idea of a perceptron and its basic form of functionality. We then embarked on a journey to explore four of the most common neural networks out there: MLP, CNN, RNN, and LSTM. We gained a better sense of how to select activation functions, measure loss, and implement our understandings using the Keras library.

Next, we took a less theoretical and much more hands-on approach as we tackled our first dataset that was sequential nature. We spent a considerable amount of time preprocessing our data, developing our model, getting our model development organized with MLflow, and reviewing its performance. Following these steps allowed us to create a custom and well-suited model for the problem at hand. Finally, we took a no-code approach by...