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Fate of the Biotech Industry in an Inflationary Environment
The Biotech industry had a strong push for investments during the pandemic. Several years of financial abundance was followed by...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Jul 105 min read
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Will biotech hiring pace up?
There have been widespread layoffs in the biotech industry in recent years affecting many workers and a surge of candidates looking for...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Jul 52 min read
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The technologies that will drive translational breakthroughs
I have directed this question to the biotech/pharma researchers in a LinkedIn poll: Where do you expect the most prominent breakthroughs...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Jun 291 min read
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The trends that will shape pharma and biotech industry
Recently, I posed the following question to biotech researchers in the pharmaceutical industry in a LinkedIn poll:“ What do you think...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Jun 212 min read
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Biotech layoffs and bioinformaticians
Recently, I directed this question to bioinformaticians in the pharma and biotech industry in a LinkedIn poll: " Have you or your...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Jun 141 min read
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Bioinformatics as a service
Corporations are outsourcing most of the services that are needed for their business. Can Bioinformatics be one of them? Over the past...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Jun 62 min read
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Most commonly used single-cell technologies in pharma research
I recently directed this question to pharmaceutical researchers. The answers are for as follows: I don't use any: Â 33% scATAC-Seq: Â Â ...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Jun 13 min read
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What purpose is NGS mostly used for?
I recently directed this question to pharmaceutical researchers. The answers are for as follows: Drug target discovery - 28%: In my view,...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
May 313 min read
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Where do biotech companies receive bioinformatics services from?
I recently directed this question to experimental scientists in biomedicine. The results for as follows: Do it myself (45%): Like any...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
May 263 min read
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When is the best time contact a bioinformatician for an NGS study?
a) Â Before planning the study b) Â Before starting the study c) During the study d) When the data is generated Recently, I directed the...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
May 33 min read
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Can GPT be used for Genomics?
GPT caught almost every industry with storm. Can it also transform Genomics for drug discovery? Large language models (LLMs) found a lot...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
May 22 min read
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Rise of AI in Biomedicine: AlphaFold
Awarding the Nobel prize in Chemistry to the inventors of AlphaFold marks an important milestone for the impact of AI in Life Sciences....
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Nov 30, 20242 min read
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Rise of GPT and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Large language models have transformed every industry. Transformer models have had a profound impact on language translation, completely...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Nov 29, 20242 min read
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Rise of Generative AI in image generation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has found applications in science, research, and industry for decades. Perhaps the most widely used family...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Nov 28, 20242 min read
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Rise of AI in language processing: Transformers
In my previous post, I have touched on recursive neural networks (RNNs), which are one of the early algorithms that use the...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Sep 22, 20242 min read
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Rise of AI in automated translation: RNNs
RNNs were the first deep learning method that could handle sequential information. One of the long standing research fields of...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Sep 21, 20243 min read
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Rise of AI in image processing: CNNs
CNNs was the first architecture that started the deep learning revolution. Although AI was heavily publicized in 2010s with the Go game...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Sep 1, 20243 min read
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Rise of AI in strategy: AlphaGo
Chess was an easy cake for AI. How about Go? AI has been a topic of discussion and curiosity for a long time, but the debates to got more...
Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD
Aug 25, 20243 min read
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