Bioinformatics in the AI-era

In 2011, I wrote two articles ( here and here ) providing beginners’ guides to bioinformatics. Eight years later (2019), I posted an updated guide here . Now that AI has become a powerful tool, it is time to discuss how the work of bioinformatics and computational biology is changing. Before continuing, I will mention that three distinct activities fall under the broad term “AI”. They are - (i)…