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Scalable VCF format
Scalable VCF improves storage, scalability The default Variant Call Format (VCF) scales poorly, requiring 900 tebibytes (TiB) for a 150,000-genome VCF, since it densely represents both reference-genotypes and allele-indexed arrays leading to unnecessary data...
PuppyGraph
Revolutionizing Healthcare with Real-Time, Zero-ETL Graph Analytics PuppyGraph, fresh off a $5M raise, offers life scientists tools to unlock complex biological and patient data relationships in real-time, transforming healthcare outcomes.
Medscape reveals Scribe AI clinical notes app
Medscape launched a free AI-driven, HIPAA-compliant scribing service for US clinicians within the free Medscape. It listens to patient visits then generates and uploads EHR-ready summaries, saving considerable time in clinical notation.
ArchonBio emerges from Stealth
Archon Biosciences emerged from stealth with $20M (Madrona Ventures) in seed funding to develop AI-designed protein “cages” in order to amplify antibody treatments and streamline drug development. Archon's goal is to enhance binding potential by clustering their cages...
Open Reaction Database (ORD)
AI-driven drug discovery is improved with knowledge of a molecule's synthesis pathway and cost. The Open Reaction Database (ORD) recently received an extensive update of new reactions. Also great to see Dr Coley's team get some press in this recent C&EN article,...
Human Tumor Atlas Network (Nature)
Nature published the Human Tumor Atlas Network to expand spatial understanding of molecular, cellular and tissue features. HTAN offers a multidimensional view of cancer biology.
San Diego’s Iambic Therapeutics releases AI platform for better outcome predictions
Iambic's AI-driven Enchant™ platform predicts clinical outcomes better than industry standard—from the discovery stage of drug development. Utilizing early discovery data to make key pharmacokinetic (PK) predictions, the model helps assess drug candidate viability to...
Takeaways from Festival of Biologics (San Diego)
April 2024 - Festival of Biologics (Terrapin, San Diego) featured exciting talks on genAI for clinical trials. Here are a few intriguing takeaways: Trial challenges are wide ranging; ethics, data, interpretability, dealing with deterministic systems in which answers...