# Biotech & healthcare

Tutorials for bioinformatics, medical imaging, and other life-sciences workloads.

### [Genomic alignment](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/genomic-alignment/page.md)

Align sequencing reads to a reference genome with a cached, parallel Bowtie 2 pipeline.

### [Cross-species gene comparison](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/genomic-gene-comparison/page.md)

Compare homologous genes across species with Carbon scoring, sequence alignment, and ESMFold 3D structures.

### [Genomic variant effect prediction](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/genomic-variant-effect/page.md)

Zero-shot pathogenicity scoring with HuggingFace Carbon and interactive VEP reports.

### [Brain tumor MRI classification](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/tumor-detection/page.md)

Classify brain MRI scans with a two-phase EfficientNet-B4 pipeline featuring resumable GPU checkpointing and in-UI reports.

### [Drug molecule screening agent](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/drug-molecule-screening/page.md)

Agentic virtual screening with RDKit stage tools, Lipinski filters, and ranked drug-likeness reports.

## Subpages

- [Genomic alignment](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/genomic-alignment/page.md)
  - Define the container image
  - Define the task environments
  - Define the data classes
  - Fetch assets
  - Quality filtering with fastp
  - Build the Bowtie 2 index
  - Align reads
  - Orchestrate the workflow
  - Run the workflow
- [Brain tumor MRI classification](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/tumor-detection/page.md)
  - Define the container image
  - Define the task environments
  - Configure training
  - Load the dataset
  - Train the model
  - Resumable checkpointing
  - Generate the report
  - Orchestrate the pipeline
  - Run the pipeline
- [Cross-species gene comparison](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/genomic-gene-comparison/page.md)
  - Define the task environments
  - Orchestrate the pipeline
  - Run the workflow
- [Genomic variant effect prediction](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/genomic-variant-effect/page.md)
  - Define the task environments
  - Orchestrate the pipeline
  - Run the workflow
- [Drug molecule screening agent](https://www.union.ai/docs/v2/union/tutorials/biotech-healthcare/drug-molecule-screening/page.md)
  - Define the task environment
  - Define the screening agent
  - Run the agentic pipeline
  - Two-round rescreen demo (complex execution graph)

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