Feb 14ChatGPT for bioinformaticsThere has been a lot of excitement surrounding ChatGPT, OpenAI’s latest public release. The language model is also capable of generating code. Let’s investigate how well the model does in generating solutions for bioinformatics. First, what it does well. Anecdotally, I’ve had much better results from python than for other…Chatgpt8 min readChatgpt8 min read
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