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We're Looking to Sponsor Postdoc Fellows in AI-Driven Microbial Cultivation NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology

We're looking to sponsor applications to the new NSF PRFB who are interested in using AI to tackle microbiology's "Great Plate Count Anomaly"

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Looks interesting

Are you using the Claude agent SDK or a different platform? Any docs/guides you have found particularly helpful?

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Really encourage folks who had bad impressions of earlier LLMs & hallucinations to take a look at domain-specific, agentic systems like Edison, Claude Code, etc.

Semantics aside--these things are just very useful now.

For the genomic analysis, Edison performed similarly, but "connected the dots" within the analysis in a way it is hard to imagine a PhD student doing on their own 5 years ago.

I knew what reasonable results should be and how long it would take a human.

For the NMR task, Edison performed similarly to a senior PhD student that manually reviewed the entire spectra, and correctly identified things like negative controls without instruction.

Tried Edison Analysis (not Kosmos) on two tasks and was blown away:

1. Uploaded 96 high-res NMR spectra of bacterial supernatants and asked for metabolite ID and quantification

2. Uploaded a bacterial genome and asked it to identify mobile genetic elements (more complex, but this is the gist)

Claude Code: A Highly Agentic Coding Assistant Explore, build, and refine codebases with Claude Code.

Old news by now, but this is a fantastic short course—feels like Andrew Ng’s early coursera neural networks class. If you have not tried Claude Code, I recommend just skimming the videos to see what the chatter is about.

www.deeplearning.ai/short-course...

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Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

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Largely agree with this—clinical validation of drugs is an extremely small N universe, and it’s not feasible to validate human- vs AI-generated hypothesis prob of success. AI is much better suited to solving the sub-problems in drug dev (which vanilla machine learning was already pretty good at).

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Amazing resource—hope it gets used broadly and we see TnSeq datasets become more common for Bacteroidales.

Fully agreed—peptides don’t really overcome any of the policy, payment, or access issues that impede traditional anti-infective commercialization and utility. Cool to have in the armamentarium, but development $$ are mostly a zero sum game in the space…

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