David Hofer

Software engineer working on tracking genome sequences, edits, and variants. He/him.

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Some news: Last April, I left Ginkgo Bioworks after 8+ years as a software engineer there. Since then, I’ve been working on starting a new company called GenHub with a couple other ex-Ginkgo people, Bob Van Hove and Chris Mitchell. (1/5)

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@DougOrleans TV on the Radiohead

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@DougOrleans Marco Sturm Brightblade

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@vintagemapstore @OmicsOmicsBlog Thank you for including Lake Champlain!

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@NoahKahan @nbcsnl Glad to see Matt’s finally hit the big time

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New GenHub post: Cloning a combinatorial library into a plasmid, and viewing the result as a sequence graph: https://t.co/tYvByxYbLg

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@RexKwonDo92 @OmicsOmicsBlog The emperor better get his ass to Arrakis and take charge of the situation

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@NikoMcCarty So it’s like when I used to install linux on a windows machine

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@bdquinn @OmicsOmicsBlog We aren’t his audience. His audience believes this nonsense because it wants to

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@ddale8 Narrator: They were everywhere

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@ddale8 Wow, you’re like the narrator in Arrested Development! Thank you for your work

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GenHub (my company) was at FOSDEM (an open source conference) this year. We presented on gen and GenHub for the computational biology track. Check out the video here! https://t.co/DLjn8vr8WN

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@DarthPutinKGB Coercing the EU to loan Ukraine 90 billion euros in December was stunning

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@adamscochran I want to see priority funding for any infrastructure project a city in a swing state needs. Anything that helps those cities to grow should help the state they’re in to turn Democratic

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@stewartbrand I think they should pour money into any infrastructure project needed by cities in swing states. Anything that grows those cities could help those states become more reliably blue

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@p_maverick_b But I am working on another plasmid viewer, so feel free to block me

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@p_maverick_b In my experience working on software for biologists, they are focused on lab work. Any software they use must have a compelling reason, otherwise it’s a distraction. Having a good UI helps. Artists use software to create things. Biologists use labs to create things.

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@goldstar002 I saw this and knew you would cover it. Thanks!

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@adamscochran And one thing people can do to directly help is to work at the polls

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@p_maverick_b A few years ago I resolved to run a 5K every month for the year. I enjoyed it because it forced me to run some unusual and interesting races

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New GenHub post: Pooled designs (AKA combinatorial libraries: https://t.co/49uHVgAMMX

Earlier we posted about using gen with E.coli. This new post shows the flexibility of representing DNA as a sequence graph. It can track genome changes, and also DNA libraries. Take a look!