Programming Cells
The complexity of cells and their ability to process information has a lot in common with computers. Andrew Phillips and his team at Microsoft are applying concepts of computer programming to biological research, creating a…
Boosting fitness and workplace performance looks to machine learning for answers
By Miran Lee, Principal Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research A field study exploring the usability of integrating fitness equipment into a workstation environment has researchers looking to tap next-generation machine learning innovations to address the…
Modelling Immune System Processes
Immunodominance lies at the heart of the immune system’s ability to distinguish self from non-self. Understanding and possibly controlling the mechanisms that govern immunodominance will have profound consequences for the fight against several classes of…
CRISPR ML
End-to-end guide design for CRISPR/Cas9 with machine learning Azimuth and Elevation: On-target and off-target guide prediction The CRISPR/Cas9 system provides state-of-the art genome editing capabilities. However, several facets of this system are under investigation for…
Single Cell Network Synthesis
The Single Cell Network Synthesis tool (SCNS) is a tool for the reconstruction and analysis of executable models from single-cell gene expression data, which supports easy deployment of computation to the cloud for performance and control via…