Who wins from nature’s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global ‘biopiracy’ battle theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Incredible chance to work with the outrageously talented team of William Chow and Carla Greco, digging into a wealth of global and ethical and diverse biodiversity data - I can’t recommend this highly enough!

Huge thanks to the staff nature and Sam Jones for putting this piece together (the art + interviews are world class). Interested in learning more? Please check out Native BioData Consortium for more information 🧬❤️ nature.com/immersive/d415…

Published today in nature, we describe an approach for single-molecule protein reading on Oxford Nanopore arrays. By utilizing ClpX unfoldase to ratchet proteins through a CsgG nanopore, we achieved single-amino-acid sensitivity. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Retraining PLMs with newly deposited sequences doesn't guarantee better performance. Authors trained PLMs on each copy of UniRef100 from 2011 to 2024; the largest performance boost (2021->2022) coincided with the removal of unusually large number of invalid sequences from UniRef

Can Procter & Gamble and Basecamp Research make cold wash laundry the new norm? By combining bio-AI and enzymes, they aim to cut energy use and improve performance! Read more: ow.ly/FS3w50Tu2TJ #BioAI #ClimateChange #Innovation

During Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan's visit to New York, he saw nature cleaning nature in the Hudson River via the introduction of 1 billion oysters. He today committed to turbo-charge the return of nature to London’s rivers. london.gov.uk/Mayor%20of%20L…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

Today we announce a series of milestones: We're thrilled to share our $60M Series B funding, led by Singular. including S32, redalpine, True Ventures & Hummingbird Ventures! We'll scale data collection & enhance AI with this oversubscribed round. Read more:

Basecamp Research is honoured to be named one of Bloomberg's 'Top 25 UK Startups to Watch'. bit.ly/4dYrWgO #COP16 #biotech #drugdiscovery

We just posted a new paper in @bioRxiv providing the first comprehensive estimates of global genetic diversity loss Just in time for UN Biodiversity Convention on Biological Diversity @CBD #COP16 Ping me if you are here at Colombia! doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… Read key messages:

🌱Sky News interviewed Glen Gowers about why AI and biodiversity partnerships are crucial for unlocking the next generation of life-saving medicines – as global leaders, conservation specialists, and pharmaceutical firms meet at the #COP16Colombia UN Biodiversity talks, which to

Basecamp Research's Head of Global Research Phoebe Oldach's keynote "The World's First Foundational Dataset Purpose-Built for #AI in Biology," delivered at the AE: Global Summit on Open Problems for AI, is now available to watch here: bit.ly/3YAGFZI Thanks Ruairidh Battleday

It's official, PacBio has launched a new benchtop sequencer! Quick summary of the new Vega system: - instrument = $169k - consumables = $1100 per run - output = 60 Gbp, 24 hr run time This is the #HiFi sequencer #microbiology labs have been asking for. pacb.com/press_releases…

Emergency bulletin! 14 journals have co-published an urgent call for the deployment of microbial solutions against climate catastrophe, by Raquel Peixoto et al. nature.com/articles/s4146…

has anyone run nanopore sequencing on biotinylated DNA? I have seen it successfully done in this paper but not since - would love to have a chat with anyone with experience! academic.oup.com/nar/article/48…

🗻 Basecamp Research' Oliver Vince is headed to #Davos2025. This year’s theme, "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age," aligns with Basecamp’s mission to build a global network of biodiversity partnerships to train the next generation of AI. 🌍 Our Impact: Basecamp Research

Thanks Nature Biotechnology for covering Basecamp Research' groundbreaking work in building the world’s largest foundational biological database for training AI. By integrating DNA, protein, environmental, and geographical data, we're giving AI critical context that far exceeds public