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by gkk 1834 days ago
As someone with software background and interested in bio, it's a real pleasure to see a commentary from an experienced practitioner.

While we're discussing venues of progress, it's clear that software (and deep learning advances specifically) is poised to have a large impact on how bio research is conducted, and what categories of questions we'll be able to answer. The current consensus on how you leverage software in practice is to put both bio and software teams under one roof (Insitro and Recursion are canonical examples). I wonder if you think software-only company makes sense in this space? The analogy I like to use: people used to roll out their own accounting software within large enterprises until spreadsheets came along. Is there room for an equivalent in some segment of bio?