Tag Archives: Machine Learning
A Tonne of Duck in One Run: What Parima and Vow Actually Proved
From Bioreactors to Brier Scores: Building Model90, a Football Prediction Engine
What happens when a bioreactor engineer points his state-estimation toolkit at football. Model90 is a statistical forecasting engine for the 2026 World Cup and the major leagues, built on Dixon-Coles Poisson, Elo, xG and a calibrated meta-model. An honest look at how it works and what its Brier score really means.
Remove Background Noise from Video Without Re-encoding: An Audio-Only Approach with DeepFilterNet3
From Lab Bench to Browser: A Hybrid Digital Twin for CHO Cell Culture
I rebuilt two published CHO cell-culture papers — a hybrid ODE + machine-learning growth model, and a genome-scale metabolic reduction pipeline — as an interactive digital twin that runs in the browser. Here’s how it works, what’s under the hood, and an honest take on what it’s good for. No hosted version yet; the code is on GitHub and a live instance is coming soon.
Building ML Tools Scientists Will Actually Use
The Gap Between Models and Tools I’ve seen a lot of impressive ML models in biopharma that never get used. Not because the science is wrong, but because the tool doesn’t fit into anyone’s workflow. The model might be published in Nature Methods with beautiful receiver operating characteristic curves, but if a discovery scientist can’t… Read More: Building ML Tools Scientists Will Actually Use »
Case Study: Predicting Trastuzumab Developability
Why Trastuzumab Is the Perfect Test Case When I built my antibody developability predictor, I knew I needed to validate it against a molecule where we actually know the manufacturing story. Trastuzumab (Herceptin) was the obvious choice. It’s one of the most successful therapeutic antibodies ever made, with decades of manufacturing data behind it. More… Read More: Case Study: Predicting Trastuzumab Developability »
How I Built a Machine Learning Tool to Predict Drug Manufacturing Failures
A bioprocess engineer’s journey into machine learning and why the pharmaceutical industry desperately needs this bridge When I tell people I work in bioprocess engineering, I usually get blank stares. When I explain that I help manufacture proteins in giant tanks for therapeutic use, the response is often: “Oh, like brewing beer?” Not quite. But… Read More: How I Built a Machine Learning Tool to Predict Drug… »