Deploying Databricks in Azure is easy. Deploying Databricks in a super locked-down, ‘make your security group happy’ kind of way…not as easy. In some enterprise cloud architectures, it’s a common practice to deploy many cloud services behind private endpoints and ensure that your data isn’t traveling across the public web…

You may have heard that there are a couple of new Omicron subvariants that are causing alarm: BA.2.75 and BA.5. Is this alarm just something for the media blogs to write about or do they pose some real threat? …

Your feed may have recently been flooded with cool, AI-generated images rendered from tools like OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 or other models. The concept of an AI system creating new information (rather than just interpreting it) is called “hallucination”. So, does this mean that we can cause other models like, say…

A deep-dive into building scalable architectures in Azure for bioinformatics workloads. — The following is an blog-friendly extract from my upcoming book, Genomics in the Azure Cloud. This post summarizes the overall purpose of the book, which provides design considerations for a genomics-centric architecture that harnesses the cloud’s power for organizing and scaling bioinformatics. Genomics has the power to unlock biological insights…

You may have gotten word of a new SARS-CoV-2 “subvariant” to Omicron. In fact, there are a currently two, called BA.1 and BA.2. (Yes, the terminology and nomenclature are really confusing…) I have taken a quick look at the predicted structures for the receptor-binding domains (RBDs) of each subvariant. …

Back in December, I published a couple posts here (post 1 and post 2) about using AlphaFold2 and RoseTTAFold to predict the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. The motivation for this was due to fact that the actual structure of the RBD wasn’t yet available. (It…

Each time a new SARS-CoV-2 variant pops up in the news, there are two reactions that I have: “Here we go again…🙄” and “I wonder if this actually means anything? 🤔”. On Friday, I published a post on Medium that outlines how I used AlphaFold2 to predict the structure of…

It’s been a bit since we’ve heard much about a new COVID variant. With people starting to get their boosters and the holidays in full-swing, this seems like an inopportune time to hear about a new, “mega-mutated” variant: B.1.1.529. B.1.1.529 was first uploaded to GISAID on November 22nd (accession: EPI_ISL_6752027)…

If you’re an academic, scientist, business article contributor, or any other person that writes research-y things and attempts to have them published in reputable journals, you’ve probably been scarred by the peer review process. Today, a scientific journal published an article I (and others) wrote about using machine learning to…