AI in Molecular Biology

Harvard FAS

What are convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and how are they used to predict sequence motifs in biological sequences? What is a transformer and how it is used by AlphaFold to predict protein structures?This course will explore the major advances in deep learning, with a special emphasis on their applications to molecular biology and genomics. Starting from single neurons (perceptrons), we will progress to more complex architectures such as convolutional and recurrent neural networks,…