Bioinformatics Basics
What field combines biology, chemistry, CS, and statistics to analyze DNA?
Bioinformatics
The portable AI ultrasound device scans patients worldwide.
Butterfly Network
Google's AI that predicts protein structures.
AlphaFold
23andMe's 2023 breach leaked ___ TB of data.
Which clubs are co-hosting this event?
AI club + Bioi: Bioinformatics Club
Name an AI tool that corrects genome sequencing errors.
DeepVariant
AI in radiology helps reduces these two things.
Errors and diagnosis time
Isomorphic Labs designs drugs using ____.
Proteins
SNPs analyze genetic risk for ___.
Disease
Gene editing
Name Google's AI that predicts protein structures.
AlphaFold
Which hospital uses AI for pediatric diagnostics?
Beijing Children's Hospital
AI speeds up drug discovery by stimulating interactions with ____.
Proteins
Data brokers could lead to discrimination in ____.
Hiring, insurance, and loans
AI wearables monitor health in ____ time.
Real
Name a disease that AI can predict from DNA.
Cancer, IBDs, Diabetes
MIT's Mirai model analyzed over ____ images.
200,000
Name a new focus of AlphaFold's research.
Disease Pathways, plant immunity
23andMe's CEO filed for _______ in 2025.
Bankruptcy
R, Python, Biopython, BLAST, Bioconductor
Links bacteria to diseases, enables personalized medicine
Name two mental health apps using AI/
Wysa, Woebot
What's the biggest advantage of AI in drug design?
Name an ethical concern about AI in genomics.
Privacy, Bias, Discrimination
This AI model, developed by DeepMind, solved a 50-year-old ‘grand challenge’ in biology by predicting protein structures with Olympic-level accuracy—revolutionizing drug discovery. Meanwhile, in bioinformatics, its open-source data is now used to train tools like ___, which corrects errors in genome sequencing. Name both the AI model and the bioinformatics tool.
AlphaFold (AI model) and DeepVariant (Bioinformatics tool)