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Solving the disconnect between lab and data scientists: part 1

Drug Target Review

I began in bioinformatics, conducting lab-based genomics work but soon felt the need to dive deeper into the computational side. IK: At recent conferences, including the international SLAS conference in San Diego and Europe , we’ve held meetings for our interest group.

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Therapeutic Oligos 2025 Keynote Speakers Announced

Elrig

Prof Rory Johnson is an Associate Professor at University College Dublin, where his research focusses on uncovering the roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in human health and disease using an interdisciplinary combination of bioinformatic and experimental methods.

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Terra is now generally available on Microsoft Azure

Broad Institute

Through Terra, researchers can gain access to genomics and other data modalities used for biomedical research, as well as run state-of-the-art workflows developed by Broad and wider bioinformatics community. Now that Terra is on Azure, we are excited to align our use of Terra with our internal IT strategy.”

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Q&A with Lucy Sibbring, an intern with the Open Targets data team

The Open Targets Blog

  With a background in biochemistry and bioinformatics, Lucy was interested in exploring how bioinformatics was applied to real-world healthcare data. I just graduated with a degree in Bioinformatics, and I was interested to see how the skills I learned could be applied.

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From siloed data to breakthroughs: multimodal AI in drug discovery

Drug Target Review

Internally, the models learn to associate concepts, find patterns and relate text and images (or other modalities) so that they can be analysed in the same way. Each modality represents a different type of data, such as text, audio, images, video, and more. The most common MLMs are GPT-4o (powering the free ChatGPT tier), Gemini 1.5

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Vitamin A and its role in psychiatric and other disorders

Drug Target Review

In the current study undertaken by an international team of researchers, co-led by Dr William Reay, we used the genetics of retinol itself as a way to proxy its effect in thousands of traits, including brain structure, vision, and the immune system through causal modelling.

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Genomic score predicts patients' progression to multiple myeloma

Broad Institute

Adelson Medical Research Foundation, the International Myeloma Society, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the Krouse Family Foundation, the National Cancer Institute, and Stand Up to Cancer. These insights wouldn't be possible without access to deeply sequenced whole genomes from a large number of patients and across different disease stages."

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