Go in medicine & biology

Today we’re talking about uses for Go in the medical industry. Tim Stiles develops and maintains a Go package for synthetic biology and molecular biology called Poly. It has broad applications for biotech R&D, but also has very direct applications to medicine.

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Featuring:

• Tim Stiles – GitHub, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Poly on GitHub
• The algorithm of the professor used by 23and me and others
• Central Dogma of DNA of biology
• The Three-Body Problem
• AlphaFold
• Gitpod
• Foldit
• Go library for Huggingface
• SurrealDB
• Booth’s Least Rotation Go Implementation and wiki

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!