AI Reading List: Sciences: Biology

Below is a portion of my informal list of readings related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). This started out as a very short list created for use in conjunction with an academic presentation and has now grown much larger. Please let me know if you have any corrections, additions, suggestions, etc. It is very idiosyncratic and not meant to be comprehensive. Please feel free to share with others.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Reading List, by Philip Rubin

Sciences — Biology:

Carl Zimmer. In a New Anthropic Lab, A.I. Turns to Biology. Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown. The New York Times, Sep. 25, 2026.

John Anderer. Man vs. Machine: AI narrowly beats out human scholar in test of scientific skill. Study Finds, Nov. 3, 2022.

Ewen Callaway. AlphaFold’s new rival? Meta AI predicts shape of 600 million proteins. Nature, Nov. 1, 2022.

The Washington Post Editorial Board. AI gives us an astounding new view of life’s basic building blocks. The Washington Post, Sep. 1, 2022.

Payal Dahr. GPT Language Model Spells Out New Proteins. IEEE Spectrum, Aug. 12, 2022.

Ewen Callaway. ‘The entire protein universe’: AI predicts shape of nearly every known protein. Nature, July 28, 2022.

Bryan McMahon. AI is Ushering In a New Scientific Revolution. The Gradient, June 4, 2022.

Laura Judith Marcos-Zambrano, et al. Applications of Machine Learning in Human Microbiome Studies: A Review on Feature Selection, Biomarker Identification, Disease Prediction and Treatment. Frontiers in Microbiology, February 19, 2021.

Aalt Dirk Jan van Dijk, Gert Kootstra, Willem Kruijer, and Dick de Ridder. Machine learning in plant science and plant breeding. iScience, Volume 24, Issue 1, 2021.

Muhammad Noman Akhtar, Gohar Abbas, and Mohsin Ali Khan. AI in Bioinformatics. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 56(1), 301-311, 2021.

John Jumper, et al. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Nature, 596, 583–589, 2021.

Ewen Calloway. 'It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures. Nature News, November 30, 2020.

Nupur Biswas and Saikat Chakrabarti. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based Systems Biology Approaches in Multi-Omics Data Analysis of Cancer. Oncology, Oct. 14, 2020.

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