Hosting your own Git repositories
<p>As you may have already heard, GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation. What does this mean? Well, I guess nobody knows for certain but it probably will mean that GitHub...
Job search 2025 post-mortem and advice
The comp bio job market is scarier than usual: 2023 was a biotech bankruptcy bloodbath, 2024 was a little better, and as far as layoffs, 2025 has been worse. Academic and government sectors are also r...
How long does it take to run gpt-oss:20b?
<p>gpt-oss is OpenAI's open-weight models designed for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases. You can easily use it via Ollama and read more about it in their blog post....
Announcing taxburst, an update of the Krona software for taxonomy exploration
<p>Announcing taxburst for metagenome taxonomy!</p>...
Announcing taxburst, an update of the Krona software for taxonomy exploration
<p>Announcing taxburst for metagenome taxonomy!</p>...
Lessons from a Nobel Laureate (on deep learning and academia/industry)
<p>Last week I saw <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Jumper" rel="noopener noreffer " target="_blank">John Jumper</a> give a presentation on his team’s development of AlphaFold 1/2/...
Crashing Excel to Curing Cancer: How AI and Open Science Transformed One Scientist’s Path
<p>We’re bringing a podcast to the conversation: AI on the Hill — and our very first episode is now live!</p> <p>In this show, host RenĂ© BastĂłn sits down with 🎯 Ming “Tommy” Tang, a first...
Hunting collisions with ntHash
<div> <nav id="TableOfContents"> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.bacpop.org/blog/index.xml#a-quick-introduction">A quick introduction</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.bacpop.org/blog/index.xml#the-...
Analyzing ICE Detention Data from 2021 to 2025
The ability to code and explore big datasets are generally useful skills that transfer well beyond our work of biomedical spatial omics analysis. In this blog post, I analyze publicly available datase...
A recap of virtual cell releases circa June 2025
In October 2024, I twote that “something is deeply wrong” with what we now call virtual cell models. A lot has happened since then: modelers are advancing new architectures and mining new sources of i...