J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics, Inc., dies at 79 www.jcvi.org/media-center...
La Jolla, CaliforniaβApril 29, 2026βThe J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Instituteβs founder, board...
Blog post on "The AI Rewrite Dilemma": lh3.github.io/2026/04/17/t...
Itβs #WorldBookDay!
This photo shows the human genome printed in a book.
Now imagine all the data stored at EMBL-EBI. Our archives hold life science data equivalent to ~480 billion books.
Stack those books and theyβd reach from Earth to the Moon and back several times.
Great work by Nicola De Maio and Nick Goldman - not just scaleable to "pandemic scale" trees but - if I have got this right - arguably more valid than traditional column based bootstrap in the context of very tight evolution.
Amos was not only a giant of bioinformatics and biocuration, but one of the nicest people I've met in academia. His support and advice were invaluable when we were establishing @bgee.org, and I will always remember how warmly he welcomed us to @sib.swiss when I arrived in Switzerland 20 years ago.
