Deep Learning for Life Sciences (eBook)

Filippo Biscarini is a Senior Scientist at the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) in Milan, Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in Animal Breeding and Genomics from Wageningen University (The Netherlands). He has worked in several countries (Italy, Ireland, Canada, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, UK, Belgium) for the industry, academic institutions and international organizations (European Union, United Nations). His research activities include bioinformatics and biostatistics applications in plant and animal sciences and in human medicine. He has coordinated several national and international research projects. Current research activities include neural network models for the analysis of genomic and phenomic data in agriculture, the analysis of the composition and role of microbiomes across life domains, and the development of predictive models for precision medicine. Nelson Nazzicari is a Senior Scientist at CREA, Italy's largest agricultural research institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Informatics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Pavia (Italy), spent two years at George Mason University (VA, USA), taught programming at the University of Mantua and then transitioned from pure informatics to bioinformatics. Nelson is affiliated with the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Zagreb (Croatia) and collaborates with the Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (Wageningen, NL). His current research focuses on genotype-phenotype modeling and the use of deep learning in precision agriculture.