After nearly six months waiting for review, our extension to vcfdist was finally published in BMC Genome Biology this week! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I'll be there with my #Rust -colored glasses! Send me a DM if you'd like to meet up.

Both of these teams are so good…it’s just that the Warriors are better.

Benchtop HiFi: PacBio Unveils Vega 🧬🖥️ omicsomics.blogspot.com/2024/11/bencht…

Our last of the year Bay Area meetup will be happening at a winery in the East Bay, accompanied with live music and food trucks! Please sign up if you can make it as spots will be limited for this one lu.ma/zijmv8mk

Making HQH happen at the last TechBio Transformers meetup in the Bay Area on Dec 6 🍷🧬

Bay Area Winery meetup was delightful! And this is not the last one of the year! More meetups coming up before the holidays 🧬✨

NIH will eliminate embargo periods at the end to 2025. Author Accepted Manuscripts will be publicly available in PubMed Central without an embargo. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

In which a comedian accurately describes the deindustrialization of the U.S. via its global dollar structure better than most macro analysts:

Setting aside that this is one of those worthless interview questions that depends on the interviewee having memorized a formula… Phil Karlton famously said naming things is one of the two hardest problems in CS. Kai fails for sucking at naming.

One low key thing people don’t know about Japan is that Indian restaurants will give you unlimited naan in cities like Tokyo and Kyoto. You can keep requesting it and they just keep bringing it out

There ARE inter-individual differences in all sorts of traits - including immune responses - but these are best characterized at the level of the individual not at the level of groups - and given our ability to characterize individual genetics and physiology it is madness in

Type annotation in Python is all of the work of writing in a statically-typed language with zero of the benefits. I really don't get it.

Thrilled to be launching Terrain Bio today! Revolutionizing RNA medicines with our AI-powered design & manufacturing platform Helping biotechs get better mRNA candidates to patients, faster 🧬 #biotech #RNAmedicine w/ Jonathan Gootenberg Patrick Hsu Chetan and many others (awesome team!)

There's a font used just about everywhere — on road signs, elevator buttons, and old computer keyboards — that has no "official" name. You've probably seen it hundreds of times without realizing. Its origins can be traced back to an obscure Wisconsin machine shop. A great blog🔻

Sometimes I find it helpful to assume (at least for the next 10 mins) that the LLMs will tell you what the informed person will tell you not the expert who will challenge conventional wisdom. For things I am an expert on and can think creatively about, I see them make the same