A feed of the latest posts of Bioinformatics blogs around the world
<div>Venter's big Expressed Sequence Tag - soon known as ESTs - paper came out in June during my final summer as an intern; I photocopied it at my internship. I looked it up, and it had only a bit ov...
<p>In an <a href="https://homolog.us/blogs/biology/2026/05/08/history-genetics-1949-today/">earlier post</a>, I divided the modern era of genetics into 18-year periods (eras). The discoveries of each ...
<div>Craig Venter's sudden passing has triggered many writings about his life and work. I'm overdue on my own personal reflections, and am breaking them into three thematic pieces. While I only met h...
Hooks, teleportation, remote control, loops, schedules, custom agents...
<p>When I hear the word organic, two thoughts immediately come up: organic search and organic chemistry. The latter comes up because it is ingrained in me that organic chemistry is one of the hardest ...
<p>In my <a href="https://homolog.us/blogs/bioinfo/2026/05/05/bioinformatics-ai-era/">earlier post</a>, I mentioned about three distinct activities described under the broad term “AI”. They are -</p>...
<p>I have decided to divide the last 70-80 years of genetics into different eras. Each period started with a set of burning questions, which were resolved by the end of the era. However, those answers...
BioMysteryBench, the Mythos vetting U-turn, USC’s $200M AI bet, Yihui Xie on AI coding, NIH Highlighted Topics...
<p>I've been reading Sebastian Raschka's excellent book <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Machine-Learning-PyTorch-Scikit-Learn-learning/dp/1801819319">Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn</...
<p>As a bioinformatician, or other type of data analyst, we should be using the right tool for the job. There are many types of compute we can use from laptops, desktops, pro workstations, on prem-ser...