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

Developing an ML model

There are numerous ML models that we interact with on a daily basis as end users, and we likely do not even realize it. Think back to all the activities you did today: scrolling through social media, checking your email, or perhaps you visited a store or a supermarket. In each of these settings, you likely interacted with an already deployed ML model. On social media, the posts that are presented on your feed are likely the output of a supervised recommendation model. The emails you opened were likely filtered for spam emails using a classification model. And, finally, the number of goods available within the grocery store was likely the output of a regression model, allowing them to predict today's demand. In each of these models, a great deal of time and effort was dedicated to ensuring they function and operate correctly. In these situations, while the development of the model is important, the most important thing is how the data is prepared ahead of...