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Case study: Extracting tidy data from Open Targets Genetics with Otargen

The Open Targets Blog

Amir Feizi is the Director of Bioinformatics at OMass Therapeutics, a spinout from Professor Dame Carol Robinson’s Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Their work was recently published in Bioinformatics. We chat with him about otargen, and the importance of sharing open-source resources within the bioinformatics community.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

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Harini Srinivasan is a Principal Scientific Associate at Serna Bio with over 10 years of research experience in academic institutions, health care organizations and pharmaceutical companies. Bioinformatics is all about bringing together different areas of knowledge. big pharma or startups/spin off? What pro/cons?

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Synthetic biology tools advancing and accelerating drug discovery efforts

Drug Discovery World

If a pharmaceutical company is racing to identify a new vaccine, for instance, then waiting for three weeks to receive DNA sequences each time can slow down the development process compared to competitors who might have faster timelines.” . “We Cell-free systems for drug design and manufacturing .

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