Ramsundar Bharath - Deep Learning for the Life Sciences: Applying Deep Learning to Genomics, Microscopy, Drug Discovery, and More

by Bharath Ramsundar , Peter Eastman , Patrick Walters , and Vijay Pande

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In recent years, life science and data science have converged. Advances in robotics and automation have enabled chemists and biologists to generate enormous amounts of data. Scientists today are capable of generating more data in a day than their predecessors 20 years ago could have generated in an entire career. This ability to rapidly generate data has also created a number of new scientific challenges. We are no longer in an era where data can be processed by loading it into a spreadsheet and making a couple of graphs. In order to distill scientific knowledge from these datasets, we must be able to identify and extract nonobvious relationships.

One technique that has emerged over the last few years as a powerful tool for identifying patterns and relationships in data is deep learning, a class of algorithms that have revolutionized approaches to problems such as image analysis, language translation, and speech recognition. Deep learning algorithms excel at identifying and exploiting patterns in large datasets. For these reasons, deep learning has broad applications across life science disciplines. This book provides an overview of how deep learning has been applied in a number of areas including genetics, drug discovery, and medical diagnosis. Many of the examples we describe are accompanied by code examples that provide a practical introduction to the methods and give the reader a starting point for future research and exploration.