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Welcome to Project Perseus!

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  Project Perseus Introduction Dear reader, Thank you for visiting the Project Perseus blog. I hope that the topics I write about bring you as much joy as they do for me. The world is a wonderful place...if you know where to look. My goal is to help readers reach that place of finding what's wonderful, beautiful, and captivating in this world by giving you a unique perspective and allowing you to take an innocent look at this universe's beauty. But before I begin, I should address some important questions you undoubtedly have: Who are you? My name is Nathaniel Comstock Moll. I am a current student in the fields of biochemistry, molecular biology, and physics. Outside of the technical aspect of my studies I enjoy writing novels, composing original pieces for the piano, doing some amateur backyard astronomy (sometimes volunteering at my school's local observatory), and now apparently writing blog posts. Essentially, I love to learn and to stay curious; two aspects that have c...
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A Custom Self-Learning ML + Computational Biology Curriculum

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  A Custom Self-Learning ML + Computational Biology Curriculum Recently I've been toying with the idea of potentially forming a biotech startup one day. I've been seeing a lot of new startups recently that are leveraging bioinformatics, machine learning/AI, systems biology, and computational biology to construct new cellular/biological interfaces that have the potential to pave the way towards true precision medicine. If precision medicine is actually achieved in its fullest capacity, then diseases like cancer can effectively be cured, becoming little more than a chronic condition that must be treated over time, rather than a life-threatening disease. And not just cancer, but many other diseases, like metabolic disorders and genetic disorders. I believe that this can be achieved in our lifetimes, or at least some time this century. But we'll see.  When looking at all these companies doing this work, I kept thinking to myself that I wanted to learn this material for myself. ...
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