AI Biology
Software Agents have Changed Science
At Bio-IT World 2026, a Genentech scientist showed 4,000 lines of R code with no handwritten lines, and the bottleneck moved to verification.
Dale Yuzuki
Making Connectomics Mainstream
Neural connectomics is a tantalizing omic layer The opening statement at a Bio-IT World 2026 plenary session was bold: “Frontier AI has consumed all the text on the internet. It’s running out of biological ground truth. The most consequential missing dataset is the wiring diagram of the brain,
The Limiting Reagent
At Bio-IT World 2026 (Boston MA) the presenter Dan Rozelle from Rancho Biosciences gave a talk titled “Agents in the Loop: High Fidelity Omics Data requires Subject Matter Expertise”. Now this is the kind of talk that is catnip to me: I look forward to a talk about “omics
AI Biology
“We are Here” - AI and Drug Discovery by Jeremy Jenkins, Novartis’ Head of US Discovery Sciences
A field note from Dr. Jeremy Jenkins's BioIT World 2026 plenary on where AI and drug discovery actually stand today. Not the hyped version, not a future projection. The current state of AI implementation, from inside Novartis.