{"id":177045,"date":"2023-11-29T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mit-scientists-build-a-system-that-can-generate-ai-models-for-biology-research"},"modified":"2023-11-29T14:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:23:45","slug":"mit-scientists-build-a-system-that-can-generate-ai-models-for-biology-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mit-scientists-build-a-system-that-can-generate-ai-models-for-biology-research","title":{"rendered":"MIT scientists build a system that can generate AI models for biology research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-scientists-build-a-system-that-can-generate-ai-models-for-biology-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn your machine-learning project, how much time will you typically spend on data preparation and transformation?\u201d asks a 2022 Google <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/machine-learning\/data-prep\/process\">course<\/a> on the Foundations of Machine Learning (ML). The two choices offered are either \u201cLess than half the project time\u201d or \u201cMore than half the project time.\u201d If you guessed the latter, you would be correct; Google states that it takes over 80 percent of project time to format the data, and that\u2019s not even taking into account the time needed to frame the problem in machine-learning terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would take many weeks of effort to figure out the appropriate model for our dataset, and this is a really prohibitive step for a lot of folks that want to use machine learning or biology,\u201d says Jacqueline Valeri, a fifth-year PhD student of biological engineering in Collins\u2019s lab who is first co-author of the paper.<\/p>\n<p>BioAutoMATED is an automated machine-learning system that can select and build an appropriate model for a given dataset and even take care of the laborious task of data preprocessing, whittling down a months-long process to just a few hours. Automated machine-learning (AutoML) systems are still in a relatively nascent stage of development, with current usage primarily focused on image and text recognition, but largely unused in subfields of biology, points out first co-author and Jameel Clinic postdoc Luis Soenksen PhD \u201820.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn your machine-learning project, how much time will you typically spend on data preparation and transformation?\u201d asks a 2022 Google course on the Foundations of Machine Learning (ML). The two choices offered are either \u201cLess than half the project time\u201d or \u201cMore than half the project time.\u201d If you guessed the latter, you would be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}