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In the near future , Kelsey Florek , PhD , MPH , a bioinformatician at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene , imagines being able to “ talk ” to her data . Florek and other public health laboratory professionals could input their data securely into a software program that uses generative artificial intelligence ( AI ). They would open a chat box and ask their data questions .
Public health laboratorians could give their data queries or tasks such as : Is this COVID-19 variant more transmissible or evasive ? Create a table that shows the location and potential relatedness of mpox cases over the past three months . Using the common characteristics of these cases , where were these individuals exposed to Listeria ?
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