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Machine Learning and Life Sciences

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Machine Learning in Biological Sciences

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Machine learning has tremendous applications in diverse domains of Life Sciences, including Health Sciences, basic biology research, clinical research, advances in diagnostics and drug development, advances in radiology and radiotherapy, extraction of information from clinicians notes and Electronic Health Records (HER), animal sciences, welfare, health and industry, plant research, and agriculture industry. This is also expected to bring great advances in the global artificial intelligence based industry and the global market. We discuss in this chapter the major applications of Machine Learning in the major domains of life sciences.

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  1. School of Biological Sciences, National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Shyamasree Ghosh

  2. Heathcare, Data Core Systems, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Rathi Dasgupta

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Ghosh, S., Dasgupta, R. (2022). Machine Learning and Life Sciences. In: Machine Learning in Biological Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8881-2_11

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