GATK Blog

Machine learning or ML is one of the hottest buzzwords (buzzphrases?) in genomics today, along with data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL). And as with all good buzzwords, it's very unfashionable to admit that you don't know exactly what they mean. So here's an intro-level overview of these terms and where they fit in the GATK world. If after reading this you find yourself craving more substance about the exciting new ML methods being developed in GATK4, don't despair -- we plan to follow up next week with a more detailed post written by Lee Lichtenstein, GATK's leader of somatic computational method development and all-around data science nerd. "Data Science is statistics on a Mac." -- @BigDataBorat At a high level, data science is the overall discipline that deals among other things with building models in order to make statements and predictions about the data and what it represents.