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Michael Schatz has been involved in a number of interesting computational biology projects. I worked in a bioinformatics lab ~10-12 years ago and I remember us
by msandford 6y ago
Michael Schatz has been involved in a number of interesting computational biology projects. I worked in a bioinformatics lab ~10-12 years ago and I remember using his fast short read aligner to help speed things up. Back then the nanopore devices were still just rumors.
Computers have Moore's law with a base or time constant of 12-24mo. Batteries seem to have the same with a base of about 10 years (slow Moore's law I've heard it called). It feels like genome/genetic things have the same behavior but with a base of something like 5ish years.
- Real_S 6y agoThe cost of sequencing is dropping much faster than Moore's law. https://www.nature.com/news/technology-the-1-000-genome-1.14901 https://www.nature.com/news/technology-the-1-000-genome-1.14...
- biotinker 6y agoNot really. The cost of sequencing was dropping slowly for a while, then dropped much faster than Moore's Law between 2007 and 2012. It has since dropped much more slowly.
- HPsquared 6y agoSomething a bit less than Moore's law... how about Lee's law?
- fatboy93 6y agoMike Schatz is awesome, and is genuinely one of the most amazing people. I've met him on a couple of occasions and it was always amazing that he takes time off to listen to whatever ideas you've got and tries to debate them regarding their feasibility.