Genomic data is considered to be the key to unlocking so-called “precision medicine”. Some estimates suggest that by 2025, 500 million human genomes will have been sequenced, but only a fraction of it is being utilized for drug discovery and precision medicine. One of the key startups to emerge in the space is Lifebit, which […]
Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems
Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of more significant breakthroughs of the big data era, and today a European startup that has built a platform to help with this challenge specifically in the area of life sciences — and has, notably, been used by labs to sequence […]
AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, and the future of structural biology
Back in 2020, we discussed DeepMind’s impressive advances in protein structure prediction, as evinced by their showing at CASP14. They’ve finally made good on their promise to publish their work on AlphaFold2! In the interim, though, David Baker’s gr…