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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

Chapter 11: Deploying Models with Flask Applications

Over the course of this book, we explored the development of numerous robust machine learning models in areas such as breast cancer detection, scientific topic modeling, protein classification, and molecular property prediction. In each of these tutorials, we prepared and validated our models to allow them to have the best predictive power possible. We will now pivot from the development of new models to the deployment of trained models to our end users.

Within this chapter, we will explore one of the most popular frameworks for the preparation of web applications: Flask. We will use Flask to prepare a web application to serve our models to end users, and we will also prepare an Application Programming Interface (API) to serve our predictions to other web applications.

Over the course of this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding API frameworks
  • Working with Flask and Visual Studio Code
  • ...