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Machine Learning in Biotechnology and Life Sciences

By : Saleh Alkhalifa
Book Image

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

Understanding containers and images

One of the easiest ways to build, deploy, and manage a web application is through the use of containers. We can think of containers as buckets or vessels containing all items that make up a web application but in the form of an Operating System (OS) virtualization. Think back for a moment to the previous chapter—Chapter 11, Deploying Models with Flask—in which we created a virtual environment to better maintain the packages we needed to install for the application. Containers can be thought of in quite a similar way, only on the OS level.

Containers consist of a number of items such as executables, libraries, binary code, and much more. Given that they do not contain some of the heavier items servers tend to have such as OS images, they are considered to have less overhead, making them more lightweight. Since these lightweight containers are considered to be packaged up and ready to go, developers (or automated systems) are able...