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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

Working with Flask and Visual Studio Code

Flask is one of the most commonly used and versatile web applications available in the Python language. Its abstract and high-level framework makes it easy for users of all levels to have an implementation up and running in no time. Over the course of this section, we will learn about the different components of a Flask application and deploy a simple model locally on our machine.

Before we can get started with Flask, we will need an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to work with. So far, we have worked almost exclusively in Jupyter Notebook to train and develop models. When it comes to implementation, we will need another type of IDE to work with. There are numerous Python IDEs we can use, such as PyCharm, Spyder, or Visual Studio Code (VSC). I personally have found VSC to be the most user-friendly to work with, and therefore, we will use that as our primary IDE in this section. You can download VSC from their website (https://code...