Category: data-science
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Precise medicine is accurate medicine
More than 40 years ago my mother got a shocking result in her yearly check-up when she was a new immigrant to the US: she had very high cholesterol. The doctors were perplexed, because she was thin and did not have a cholesterol-heavy diet (remember wh…
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Artificial intelligence and life science in the 21st century: chatGPT, genomics and the path…
Artificial intelligence and life science in the 21st century: chatGPT, genomics and the path forwardA query to ChatGPTUnless you’ve been sleeping under a rock, you’ve been reading about and experiencing how the new generation of artificial intelligence…
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Genomic data “eating the world”
What do we plan to do about it?Most of you have probably seen the NHGRI chart that illustrates the crash in the sequencing cost per human genome. To get some perspective, it cost $3 billion to sequence the first human genome over ten years in the year …
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GenRAIT goes to PAG 30
Furthering the life science data revolution in plant and animal genomicsRazib Khan, Taylor Capito, and Santanu Das at PAG 30During the second week of January 2023, the GenRAIT leadership team attended the Plant & Animal Genome Conference in San Die…
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The genetic future is here
In the year 2000, there was one single human genome. In 2010 there were fewer than 100 human genomes (you could look them up in a spreadsheet!). Today there are likely 1,000,000 human genomes. Good luck cataloging them all. Outside of the purview of our species, there are now efforts to sequence every animal on…
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The Data Platform for the Genomic Revolution
Introducing GenRAIT to the post-genomic eraThe human genetic map became reality in the first two decades of the 21st century. This was the dream of a century of genetics, laboriously tracing pedigrees across families decade after decade. But the combin…