When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

“We’re at a transformative moment in the biomedical sciences,” says James Lu, an AI scientist at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research Bioinformatics Institute (A*STAR BII) in Singapore.

Regina Barzilay wasn’t looking to study cancer. She had made a name for herself as an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, ...