This week I attended to the Turing workshop on AI, Engineering Biology & Beyond. It was very interesting to find how these fields have seen tremendous growth in recent years, with AI being increasingly adopted across every stage of the Engineering Biology design cycle and for a growing number of biological design tasks.
Alexander Pritzel from Deepmind (the company behind alpha-fold) was there.
Natalio Krasnogor explained their currrent efforts to create a data structure using DNA for data storage and computational purposes.
Cleo Kontoravdi mentioned how AI can be used to have a better control on processes for bioreactors to increase their yield.
… And many other interesting ideas. It seems to me that this is the future in the field and Edinburgh is one of the best places in the world to be part of this change (with plenty of opportunities for Theoretical/Computational Physicists).
