Happy to announce that our first sequencing service -- SPLICE -- is now generally available.
For decades, transcriptomics has focused on gene-level analysis, but we know that most human genes undergo alternative splicing -- emitting different mRNA variants that can have completely different functions. The collapse to gene-level analysis keeps the set of therapeutic targets smaller than it has to be.
The focus on genes is partially due to the difficulty of reconstructing splicing patterns from short read sequencing data, and partially due to the difficulty of effectively using long reads to capture full-length RNA molecules.
Today, we release SPLICE to make full-length RNA sequencing easy and systematic -- opening up a larger set of candidate targets to everyone.
Some key benefits of our service: both bulk and single-cell modes, no sample minimums, turnaround in under a week, no bioinformatician needed, full access to our data management and analysis suite, and 4x more reads per cell than what is typically found in the literature. Further, one untargeted assay gives you expression, V(D)J recombinations, whole exome variants, and splicing information. It's a very high yield assay for samples that are often extremely precious.
We're also releasing updates to our tools. Shown below are queries we've added to our genomics viewer for comparing canonical isoforms against other variants and for finding reads that capture both 5' and 3' ends.
The data shown is real data generated from our service -- we have example data readily available. We've been running SPLICE privately with rare disease customers for months and are happy to finally make it generally available.
Hey everyone! We want to build a biosecurity community in NYC, and we're going to be running our first social in Manhattan on April 30. Come meet other people working on or thinking about biosecurity, and enjoy some food and drinks. Newcomers welcome! No biosecurity experience needed.
Announcing our $60M raise today. We're scaling Perimeter to accelerate the next era of biosecurity. Building detection and response infrastructure for the current and next era of biological threats.
Excited to partner with Kanders & Co, Goldcrest Capital, SCS Financial, Four Cities Capital, and the AI Safety Fund (SAIF).
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We have seen the first sparks of automated AI research done by LLMs, but how do we train them to be better auto-researchers?
Ever wonder how you could use your computer science skills to stop the next pandemic, but don't know where to start.
In a new post, I provide an introduction into viral biosurveillance and the computational problems that come with it.
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see if LLMs can help novices perform molecular biology in a wet-lab.
The results: LLMs may help in some aspects, but we found no significant increase at the core tasks end-to-end. That's lower than what experts predicted.
Our findings 🧵
one the benefits of working at a company is that you can get mentorship/feedback from more tenured individuals on how you can better work.
however, when you're founding a startup with some of your peers, it's unlikely you'll have that same senior experience.
does anyone have any advice on this or any articles that have been written on this?
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