How has the AI boom impacted algorithmic biology?

Journal: Cell systems
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Abstract

This Voices piece will highlight the impact of artificial intelligence on algorithm development among computational biologists. How has worldwide focus on AI changed the path of research in computational biology? What is the impact on the algorithmic biology research community?

Authors

  • Mona Singh
    Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America; Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.
  • Cenk Sahinalp
  • Jianyang Zeng
    Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Electronic address: zengjy321@tsinghua.edu.cn.
  • Wei Vivian Li
  • Carl Kingsford
    Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. carlk@cs.cmu.edu.
  • Qiangfeng Zhang
  • Teresa Przytycka
  • Joshua Welch
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
  • Jian Ma
  • Bonnie Berger
    Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA and Department of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA and Department of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.