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Abubakar Abid on AI for Genomics, Gradio, and the Fatima Fellowship

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Gene Expression and Variant Calling in Genomic Sequencing

Even in just genomics, a subset of biomedicine, there's so many interesting problems. One is variant calling - figuring out what are your variants with reference to the human genome. Google released this paper called Deep Variant that showed how you could assemble it almost like a jigsaw puzzle and then run image classification algorithms. It's just incredible. You have these great networks for variant calling and it beat all other methods.

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