Addressing industrial challenges and academic needs: perspectives on data interoperability and exchange While it is clear that the sharing of data is crucial to the advancement of science, varying maturity levels across sectors and technological and sociological blockers often stand in the way. The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, a UK charity dedicated to the advancement […]
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Informatics Reflections Summer 2023 A few things have caught our attention around applications and data management in the recent months from a recent conference plus the constantly changing updates to products and services and so some brief notes to share and discuss sometime The role of data management and the ability to make the most […]
Summer 2023 Informatics Reflections
We were just preparing a blog on the role of platforms in supporting Life Science R&D and the growing trend for Pharma and Biotech to wish to have an informatics and data platform to underpin their R&D. But putting that on hold for a week in just seeing the news of the acquisition of Dotmatics […]
Consolidation in R&D Informatics vendors : data remains the real ...
Importance of data and its early lifecycle. This is a series of blogs looking at the importance of data & the current efforts to make data more FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable & Reusable) & higher quality to help tackle reproducibility and Life Science & health challenges. There are many excellent activities ongoing around data reusability […]
Are the best data management systems, the ones we do ...
Some reflections from day 1 of Lab of the Future at Welcome Genome Campus, Cambridge Wed 13 Nov 2019. What digital lab of the future could be & some key messages from the panels and speakers that included Bayer, Roche, AstraZeneca, GSK, Abbvie, Janssen, Leo Pharma & Benevolent AI etc Digital is not simply making […]
Lab of Future Congress Day 1: Nov 2019 Insights
With the rise of AI & ML within Life Sciences & Health, it’s become obvious that a key blocker to success is not the maturity of the AI tools and techniques but access to data in sufficient volume and quality for the AI & ML methods to analyse. In this blog we discuss some of […]
Data Sharing challenges and AI
As part of the Pistoia Alliance’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) in Life Sciences, we are planning an AI/ML workshop to allow our community to meet, share ideas and make progress on their AI/ML adoption, implementation planning and impact. AI/ML is at peak hype in terms of its attention and much […]
Pistoia Alliance Centre of Excellence for AI/ML in Life Sciences ...
Our recent Pistoia Alliance blog post is available AI and machine learning (AI/ML) are certainly at peak hype at the moment around the current and future impact on Life Sciences and Healthcare. With a wealth of companies, large or small, offering new ways to interrogate existing data and build decision workflows supporting Life Science. But is […]
If Data is the currency of AI, are we doing ...
Our recent Perspective’s article in C&N News is available Much hype is attached to the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Life Science and Health at the moment. While there has been tremendous expansion to the potential of AI we feel that the first way that scientists will interact with will be via Augmented Intelligence, […]
Augmented Intelligence in C&E News – some perspectives for Life ...
Amazon’s Alexa has become very popular as a Voice assistant and especially in the home over the last 18 months. Alexa Skills, the apps that can run on Alexa and integrate with other services have grown considerably. In terms of market share, Alexa has over 15000 skills compared to the other platforms (Google Assistant and […]