Deep Learning for Biology

AI & the quest for a vaccine

How AI is transforming the search for a coronavirus vaccine

Notwithstanding the challenges posed by lack of adequate amount of data, several AI based tools are been developed and used recently to address the many challenges posed by the current pandemic. In the last 8 months, AI models have been used for, among other things, biomedical image classification for clinical diagnosis using CT-scan & x-ray images and predicting hotspots & outbreaks by tracking local news and…