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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

Who this book is for

This book specifically caters to scientific professionals in both academia and industry looking to transcend to the data science domain. Individual contributors and managers alike who are already established within the pharmaceutical, life sciences, and biotechnology sectors will find this book not only useful, but immensely applicable to current-day projects. Although an introduction to Python and machine learning is provided, a basic understanding of Python programming and a beginner-level background in data science conjunction is recommended to get the most out of this book.