Trends from the Trenches
Trends from the Trenches
Bio-IT World
Episode: 41 - Sonia Timberlake on Agentic AI for Biotech Coders
34 minutes Posted Apr 28, 2026 at 1:00 pm.
Meet Sonia And The Big Shift
Why AI Suddenly Matters Now
Agentic Coding In Bioinformatics
Benchmarks That Build Real Trust
AI For Noncoding Knowledge Work
How To Vet AI Products
Biology Risk And New Targets
Where Biotech Investment Is Flowing
Workshop Preview And Getting Started
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AI is now good enough to change how computational biology teams actually work, but most companies are still adopting it like it’s 2023. Sonia Timberlake, R&D strategy consultant for Timberlake & Maclsaac Biopharma Consulting, speaks with host Eleanor Howe about what’s real: agentic coding, high-throughput data workflows, and the practical limits that still slow teams down. Timberlake digs into benchmarks for capabilities and end-to-end tasks, as well as multimodal chart understanding,...