"Machine learning for biological mass spectrometry".
Mass spectrometry is an analytical technique that can be used to measure all proteins or small molecules in any given biological sample. However, it produces highly complex data that can be very difficult to interpret. Michael Skinnider’s (University of British Columbia, lab of Leonard Foster) research focuses on developing artificial intelligence and machine-learning tools to interpret mass spectrometry data from biological systems.
During his PhD, Skinnider used machine learning to identify proteins that physically interact in living tissues. This work revealed how inherited mutations, present in every cell in the body, can cause dysfunction in just one tissue. Skinnider then developed an artificial intelligence platform that could elucidate the chemical structures of small molecules using mass spectrometry and demonstrated how this platform could be used to automatically identify new drugs of abuse.
Before joining the University of British Columbia’s MD/PhD programme in 2015, Michael Skinnider did his undergraduate studies at McMaster University in Canada. Besides being a first author on 26 scientific papers, he was named one of Forbes Magazine’s “30 under 30”.
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