AI BIO TCH CO Colby T. Ford, Ph.D. Building Multi-agentic Bioworkflows with Microsoft Foundry and Nextflow As bioinformatics workflows grow in scale and complexity, automating the data retrieval, analysis, and interpretation is imperative for…
BIO TCH GEN MDA CO Colby T. Ford, Ph.D. Structuring Proteomics Data from Multiple Lab Vendors in Cloud Data Warehouses When dealing with genomics and transcriptomics data, the bioinformatics community has mostly settled on a few file formats (e.g., BAM, VCF…
AI TCH CO Colby T. Ford, Ph.D. Deploying Custom Microsoft Foundry Agents as Shiny Python Apps in Azure Microsoft Foundry is quickly becoming one of the easiest platforms to deploy AI models and build agents in the cloud. In Foundry, you can…
AI BIO MED SOC SCI CO Colby T. Ford, Ph.D. Challenges in Effective Candidate Selection in AI-Based Antibody Design — Our Nipah Virus… Over the last month or so, my group at Silico Biosciences has been participating in the Adaptyv Bio Nipah Binder Competition. We generated…
AI BIO MED CO Colby T. Ford, Ph.D. New Week, New Molecular AI Models: BioEmu-1 and Evo 2 This past week, two new molecular AI models were released: BioEmu-1 and Evo 2. Since it seems like there are new models popping up every…
AI BIO MDA CO Colby T. Ford, Ph.D. Deploy Protein Language Models using Ollama The hype about LLMs is almost always referring to models that generate text. They can write your cover letters, jokes, or even a blog post…
AI BIO GEN CO Colby T. Ford, Ph.D. Am I Hallucinating or Can AI Now Design Cancer-Curing Antibodies? AlphaFold2 Hallucinated to make a new Cancer Antibody