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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)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Data
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Section 2: Developing and Training Models
13
Section 3: Deploying Models to Users

Tutorial – deploying a container to AWS (Lightsail)

AWS Lightsail is a managed cloud platform that has gained a great deal of popularity in recent years due to its simple interface and fast deployment capabilities and is overall a great way to get started when deploying applications using AWS. Some of the most common use cases for using Lightsail as opposed to other AWS products or solutions include simple Machine Learning (ML) web applications (such as ours!), static portfolio websites, and dynamic e-commerce websites, as well as simple APIs.

Over the course of this tutorial, we will deploy our Flask application to AWS Lightsail using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). You can install the CLI by navigating to the AWS CLI page (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/install-cliv2.html), selecting an OS of interest, and following the installation instructions. You can confirm that the CLI was correctly installed by running the following command:

$ aws configure...