Sanger Science
2 September 2024Science and AI fans, get ready for October 2024 – the Wellcome Sanger Institute is hosting the first-ever Explainable AI in Biology Conference at the Wellcome Genome Campus. Here we review a snapshot of some of the planned talks from AI experts about integrating AI into biological research.
20 August 202415.1 min readEmbedding ethics into research enables scientists to maximise the societal benefit of their work. It is also an important tool for accountability, especially in genomics research. For instance, how are the data gathered going to serve the communities that have donated the data to research?
1 October 20133.5 min read01.10.13: Statistical method overcomes computational challenges at molecular biology’s new frontier
24 September 20132.8 min read24.09.13: Searching for mutations that originate in sperm and egg cells is a tricky business. Art Wuster explains why and introduces DeNovoGear, a free software that will simplify the process for researchers
29 August 20133.6 min read29.08.13: There has been an explosion in genomic data, jumping genes may offer a way for researchers to keep up
13 August 20133 min read13.08.13: Pigs' immune systems are similar to ours, making them a great model to understand human health and disease. But the genes' position and function was unknown, until a worldwide group of annotators took matters into their own hands
8 August 20134.2 min read08.08.13: Muscular dystrophy is a group of muscle wasting disorders that affects more than 70,000 children and adults in the UK. Keren Carss talks about how her research in zebrafish is beginning to unravel the underlying genetics of these debilitating disorders.
29 July 20134.5 min read29.07.13: Finding malaria vaccine targets means looking for parasite proteins that bind to red blood cells. Discovering these weak and fleeting attractions requires a special technique, explains Josefin Bartholdson
