Episode 6
Bioinformatics and the Unprecedented COVID-19 Vaccine Race
Data Science Leaders | 44:16 | June 09, 2021
The field of bioinformatics plays a critical role in medical breakthroughs like the COVID-19 vaccine.
The field of bioinformatics plays a critical role in medical breakthroughs like the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fiona Hyland, Director of R&D, DNA Sequencing Informatics at Thermo Fisher Scientific, teaches all of us about how it happened in the latest episode of Data Science Leaders.
What we talked about:
- A quick run through of genetics and bioinformatics terminology
- Bioinformatics, and the genetics of cancer and the coronavirus
- The role of data science in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine
Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:
