Go in medicine & biology

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Today we’re talking about uses for Go in the medical industry. Tim Stiles develops and maintains a Go package for synthetic biology and molecular biology called Poly. It has broad applications for biotech R&D, but also has very direct applications to medicine.

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Featuring:

• Tim Stiles – Twitter, GitHub
• Natalie Pistunovich – Twitter, GitHub
• Ian Lopshire – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Poly on GitHub
• The algorithm of the professor used by 23and me and others
• Central Dogma of DNA of biology
• The Three-Body Problem
• AlphaFold
• Gitpod
• Foldit
• Go library for Huggingface
• SurrealDB
• Booth’s Least Rotation Go Implementation and wiki

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:00:31)

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3. It's Go Time! (00:02:14)

4. Welcome, Tim! (00:02:57)

5. Tim's biotech & Go history (00:03:28)

6. Biotech's lack of software tooling (00:08:11)

7. How Tim ended up at Harvard Med (00:10:41)

8. Tim's wife got him into biology (00:12:59)

9. Ending up in a Garage Lab to learn biology (00:15:27)

10. Poly - a Go package for DNA engineering (00:17:08)

https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly

11. Applications of Poly (00:19:54)

12. Sponsor: Square (00:23:33)

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13. Poly's DNA simulation (00:24:35)

14. The price of DNA modeling (00:28:47)

15. The future of bioengineering (00:30:47)

16. Is Go part of this future? Why? (00:34:41)

17. Choosing Go for Poly (00:36:13)

18. The bright future of bioengineering (00:39:48)

19. Natalie as a biotech expert? (00:45:28)

20. AI as a biotech expert? (00:46:01)

21. Sponsor: Retool (00:51:02)

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22. Biotech is 10 years behind software trends (00:51:54)

23. Tim's inverse law of software quality (00:52:56)

24. Owning software is not like owning land (00:54:52)

25. How can the community get involved? (00:56:00)

26. Upopular Opinions! (00:59:11)

27. Tim's unpop (00:59:33)

28. Time to go! (01:04:57)

29. Outro (01:06:02)