Unlocking Nature's Secrets: How Biology and Computer Science Are Changing the Future 🌱

Discover how Anne Carpenter, a leading computational biologist, leverages machine learning to revolutionize biological research at the Broad Institute. Explore the fascinating intersection of biology and computer science!

Unlocking Nature's Secrets: How Biology and Computer Science Are Changing the Future 🌱
Quanta Magazine
108.5K views • Nov 2, 2021
Unlocking Nature's Secrets: How Biology and Computer Science Are Changing the Future 🌱

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Anne Carpenter, a computational biologist and senior director of the Imaging Platform of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images. She developed CellProfiler, a widely used open-source software for measuring phenotypes (sets of observable traits) from cell images. It has been cited in more than 12,000 publications since its release in 2005.

Read more at Quanta: https://www.quantamagazine.org/her-profiling-tools-turn-cell-images-into-cellular-insights-20211102/

Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation.

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