The de.NBI & ELIXIR-DE and GHGA Knowledge Series: How to make your custom AI agent

Digital announcement for the webinar series “The Knowledge Series – Empowering Research: Practical Bioinformatics and Data Management.” Date: February 23, 2026, 13:00 CET. Title of the webinar: “How to start to make your custom AI agent, from commercial providers to academic providers or local installations for added security and privacy” with Jacobo Miranda. More information on GHGA and de.NBI websites.

In this practical webinar we will introduce some, not so well known, uses of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT or DeepSeek, for example we will give it a "persona" so it provides more specialized answers and we will teach it to use custom terminology so the users can get non-answers. We will use an LLM provider that focuses on privacy and security and targets academic usage, so the customizations are not made public unless it is specifically requested. We will also show how to add relevant documents to the LLMs context, to enable it to generate better responses, and we will note risks and how to mitigate these risks, while we are using these tools. At the end we will point to additional resources for participants to continue to create custom LLMs

This webinar is aimed at students, early career researchers, clinicians, bioinformaticians and everyone interested in how to build custom AI agents for clinical research use.  

The webinar will be held by Jacobo Miranda Ackerman from de.KCD.

The event is in English, it takes approx. 60 minutes and will be held on 23rd February 2026 at 13:00 CET (available afterwards on demand). Attendance is free, but we ask for registration.