Episode: 41 - Sonia Timberlake on Agentic AI for Biotech Coders

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Sonia Timberlake discusses the impact of agentic AI on biotech coding and computational biology workflows.

AI is now good enough to change how computational biology teams actually work, but most companies are still adopting it like it’s 2023. Sonia Timberlake, R&D strategy consultant for Timberlake & Maclsaac Biopharma Consulting, speaks with host Eleanor Howe about what’s real: agentic coding, high-throughput data workflows, and the practical limits that still slow teams down. Timberlake digs into benchmarks for capabilities and end-to-end tasks, as well as multimodal chart understanding,...

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Host: Eleanor Howe

Guest: Sonia Timberlake

Topics covered

• Agentic AI
• computational biology
• biotech coding
• high-throughput data workflows
• R&D strategy

Keywords

• AI
• computational biology
• biotech
• data workflows
• agentic coding
• R&D strategy

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Organizations: Timberlake & Maclsaac Biopharma Consulting

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