Author: Michael Hsieh

Drug development is a complex and long process that involves screening thousands of drug candidates and using computational or experimental methods to evaluate leads. According to McKinsey, a single drug can take 10 years and cost an average of $2.6 billion to go through disease target identification, drug screening, drug-target validation, and eventual commercial launch. […]

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer, and is composed of tumors with significant molecular heterogeneity resulting from differences in intrinsic oncogenic signaling pathways [1]. Enabling precision medicine, anticipating patient preferences, detecting disease, and improving care quality for NSCLC patients are important topics among healthcare and life sciences (HCLS) […]

March 2023: This post was reviewed and updated to comply with service version update.. RStudio on Amazon SageMaker is the industry’s first fully managed RStudio Workbench in cloud. You can quickly launch the familiar RStudio integrated development environment (IDE), and dial up and down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, making it easy […]

Today, we announced RStudio on Amazon SageMaker, the first machine learning (ML) integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud for data scientists working in R. The open-source language R and its rich ecosystem with more than 18,000 packages has been a top choice for statisticians, quant analysts, data scientists, and ML engineers. RStudio on SageMaker […]

Today, we’re excited to announce RStudio on Amazon SageMaker, the industry’s first fully-managed RStudio integrated development environment (IDE) in the cloud. You can now bring the current RStudio licenses and migrate your self-managed RStudio environments to Amazon SageMaker in a few simple steps. RStudio is one of the most popular IDEs among R developers for […]

Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support Amazon Linux 2, so you can now create a new Amazon SageMaker notebook instance to start developing your machine learning (ML) models with the latest updates. An obvious question is: what do I need to do to migrate my work from an existing notebook instance that runs on Amazon […]

February 8th, 2022: Updated with AWS CloudFormation support to create an Amazon Linux 2 based SageMaker notebook instance. Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker notebook instances support Amazon Linux 2. You can now choose Amazon Linux 2 for your new SageMaker notebook instance to take advantage of the latest update and support provided […]

Statistical analysis and simulation are prevalent techniques employed in various fields, such as healthcare, life science, and financial services. The open-source statistical language R and its rich ecosystem with more than 16,000 packages has been a top choice for statisticians, quant analysts, data scientists, and machine learning (ML) engineers. RStudio is an integrated development environment […]

Industries like healthcare, media, and social media platforms use image analysis workflows to identify objects and entities within pictures to understand the whole image. For example, an ecommerce website might use objects present in an image to surface relevant search results. Sometimes image analysis may be difficult when images are blurry or more nuanced. In […]