When Biology Meets Computer Science

Anne Carpenter, a computational biologist and senior director of the Imaging Platform of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images. She developed CellProfiler, a widely used open-source software for measuring phenotypes (sets of observable traits) from cell images. It has been cited in more than 12,000 publications since its release in 2005.

Quanta Magazine is an editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation.

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Read the full interview with Anne Carpenter at _Quanta Magazine_ :

[yungbloodas]

It is a well known law of the universe, that after a scientist says "mitochondria." They must follow up with these words, "The powerhouse of the cell." Jokes aside thank you very much for the educational video.

[vitorsoutoneves]

That is great! I graduated med school in 2019 and on the next Saturday I'll begin a bootcamp in data science. It feels great to listen to a person with a somewhat similar path.

[larryfisherman]

This channel is severely underrated, never in a 1000 years would I find myself watching videos like this but now it’s all I watch

[nano]

My brother is an absolute pro in image analysis. He studied physics, went into biology at EMBL and ended doing image analysis with zebra fish (cells). I also had enough luck to do automated image segmentation of E. coli cells, which in my former group is aimed to be automated. I used a neural net to generate some cool features that could then be used to quantify certain phenotype traits and expression levels of proteins.

[savagesarethebest]

I have always had an interest in Biology but I have been working with computers all my life because of ease of access and I have a great aptitude with it. But the last few years I have really been into learning myself more about Biology and have even an idea for a business. I have no formal education, but I am a learner by heart

[Gabrielowns]

I'm so excited to be studying this stuff, imagine the future of bioinformatics :o

[bezdaknebomizera]

I totally agree that the multidisciplinary research centers can come with great results. I am personally student of cybernetics on the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (CZ) and a research center NTIS located on the university is a complex of IT offices, electrotechnical laboratiories and a biological laboratory. And people from different fields often work together on same projects.

[ultramanbadman]

She didn't miss the part that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cells. Kudos to her research by the way!

[yugen]

"Mitochodria - power house of the cell..."
Yeah I knew that. I'm somewhat of a Biology meets Computer Science myself.

[shauryakansal]

wow, I'm super impressed. thanks! Anne is great inspiration

[UserName-iice]

Im majoring in CS because I want to work in computational biology like this

[pulungnanang]

When you said that there are psychosis related to mitochondria it really blew my mind.

[sharifullahdanish]

Being a computer science student, I wish her success.

[x-ww]

+1 for the mitochondria meme reference

[Christian-xggc]

Identifying psychosis via the structure of their cells sounds far more like correlation rather than causation. While furthermore, how does one if the structure of the cell is the cause or the symptom.

[sayoksarkar]

Finally, I found someone with similar interests. 😊

[aditi]

The same with me, but for me I wanna study like all these together, bio and chemistry not in med but like food, energy, cosmetic kinda sector with CS and business...

[Fmwp]

Amazing to hear about possible solutions for mental health illnesses!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉 please keep going

[RenatoRegalado]

i love how a phd in biology can't help herself and says "the powerhouse of the cell" whenever she says mitochondria as well :D