Talk Python to Me: #335: Gene Editing with Python

Gene therapy holds the promise to permanently cure diseases that have been considered life-long challenges. But the complexity of rewriting DNA is truly huge and lives in its own special kind of big-data world. <br/> <br/> On this episode, you'll meet David Born, a computational biologist who uses Python to help automate genetics research and helps move that work to production.<br/> <br/> <strong>Links from the show</strong><br/> <br/> <div><b>David on Twitter</b>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hypostulate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@Hypostulate</a><br/> <b>Beam Therapeutics</b>: <a href="https://beamtx.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beamtx.com</a><br/> <br/> <b>AWS Cloud Development Kit</b>: <a href="https://ift.tt/2XGq455" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aws.amazon.com/cdk</a><br/> <b>Jupyter</b>: <a href="https://jupyter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jupyter.org</a><br/> <b>$1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud</b>: <a href="https://ift.tt/3lU2xvO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arstechnica.com</a><br/> <b>Luigi data pipelines</b>: <a href="https://ift.tt/3kDPsHq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">luigi.readthedocs.io</a><br/> <b>AWS Batch</b>: <a href="https://ift.tt/3kFy4lD" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aws.amazon.com/batch</a><br/> <b>What is CRISPR?</b>: <a href="https://ift.tt/1nVfyUj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wikipedia.org</a><br/> <b>SUMMIT supercomputer</b>: <a href="https://ift.tt/3zG6Jnq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">olcf.ornl.gov/summit</a><br/> <b>Watch YouTube live stream edition</b>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRyLsgzK26Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a><br/> <b>Episode transcripts</b>: <a href="https://ift.tt/3CKKdMh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talkpython.fm</a><br/> <br/> <b>---------- Stay in touch with us ----------</b><br/> <b>Subscribe on YouTube (for live streams)</b>: <a href="https://ift.tt/3DznvIg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">youtube.com</a><br/> <b>Follow Talk Python on Twitter</b>: <a href="https://twitter.com/talkpython" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@talkpython</a><br/> <b>Follow Michael on Twitter</b>: <a href="https://twitter.com/mkennedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@mkennedy</a><br/></div><br/> <strong>Sponsors</strong><br/> <a href='https://ift.tt/3E3D7E6> <a href='https://ift.tt/2PVc9qH Python Training</a><br> <a href='https://ift.tt/3x0z72P>

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