Trends from the Trenches
Trends from the Trenches
Bio-IT World
Episode: 43 - The Hard Truth about Digital R&D: Patterns, Pitfalls, and the Next Wave of Innovation
45 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
Conference Session Setup And Context
Coding Agents Change Daily Work
Jobs Anxiety And Junior Advice
Enable Tools Or Lose Your IP
AlphaFold And Structural Biology Wins
Why Big Biology Models Struggle
ELNs With Chatbots Plus Active Learning
Federated Weights Negative Results Public Data
Old School Models Still Deliver
Drug Discovery Reality And Bad Actors
Autonomous Agents And Virtual Cells
Omics Costs Drop And New Assays
Leadership Whiplash And Human Accountability
Rapid Fire Summary And Closing
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At last month’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Eleanor Howe, founder and CEO of Diamond Age Data Science, presented the Trends with the Trenches session based on gathered input from colleagues, clients, and advisors across the life sciences field. Coding agents were the central topic—how they’re speeding up software development, open source maintenance, and analysis workflows while also shifting new types of responsibility to the human reviewer. Now, “just coding” is no longer enough, an...