The Coming Era of Hybrid Wet-Lab + AI Microbiologists
Clinical microbiology and bioinformatics have historically been treated as two separate disciplines. One side handles the messy biological reality of samples, culturing, and AST; the other processes cleaned datasets, builds models, and publishes algorithms. But the boundaries between these worlds are fading fast. With the rise of AI-assisted analysis, automated workflows, and increasingly genomic-driven diagnostics, the microbiologist of the next decade will not be defined by where they work wet lab or computer but by how effectively they can integrate both. ...