Radhakrishna Sanka

Making programming biology possible @NonaSoftware and democratizing microfluidics @cidar_lab

[Nona Software @NonaSoftware]

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[CIDAR Lab @cidar_lab]

Announcing Nona Works Spring 2023 competition May 19th-21st in the SF/Oakland area!

Competition topic is focused on "Security in Biotechnology", open to participants!

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[The Align Foundation @Align_Bio]

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[The Align Foundation @Align_Bio]

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[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@sgleim @TimothyStiles @github I’m glad this got solved. I guess we will see the roadmap for poly now 🎉

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@lpachter I think there’s a bigger reason for this since most genomics and bioinformatics tools until recently have not been mainstream. The rise of ML / empirical methods have made the community to start taking computational methods seriously.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@sama Umm takes time to build tech for hard problems… I was 25 when I started my PhD. Took some time to build stuff that would make a difference… also life kinda got in the way too

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@patrick_diep However, the biggest issue imo is the reluctance of both private and public institutions to invest in the development of software pipelines and tools that would save 100’s of millions of dollars worth of productivity in the biotech space.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@patrick_diep Additionally I’ve realized that it takes significant effort to develop usable GUI’s. The nature of web development means that these GUI’s need to be constantly being upgraded (2 year cadence) to ensure that dependencies and frameworks don’t get depreciated.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@patrick_diep I think the biggest issue in this space is not establishing the baseline requirement for what bioinformatics tools should should requires. I’ve spent nearly a month on building out the dev infrastructure for my PhD research projects and it’s always ongoing process.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@njoybetz Additionally, universities need to adopt co-op programs so that the international students can work in the industry rather than burning through their training periods.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@ATinyGreenCell Just declare them in a straightforward way that “authors xxx and yyy engage in the commercial sale of products derived from the works presented here”. “All the work presented here is available under Creative Commons and MIT”. You’ll need to have Creative Commons for the hardware.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@DrSynbio Well just to pipe in, well the folks with the money bags who really need invest in infrastructure.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@ankurcapital @pic_wrcb @AIC_CCMB @CCAMP_Bangalore @BioSpectrumInd @SINEIITB @BIRAC_2012 This is a pretty cool article, I’m building some tools that address a host of the problems you pointed out in the article would be happy chat !

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@TimothyStiles what do you think, maybe we write out some GraphQL schemas for allbase ?

[Furkan @furkanmtorun]

Are you looking for a better #API solution for your #bioinformatics resource/database? #GraphQL could be a good fit!

If you wonder how it works:
- Nice paper by @samirelanduk and @PrfAndrewMartin: https://t.co/mAn2iGZNMo

- My Python implementation & Doc: https://t.co/HuazzHS5nh

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@AllysonSgro https://t.co/H7yFx9JK7M

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@dr_alphalyrae There was a point when I was talking with @TimothyStiles about what the “biologist’s git commit” needs to look like. We were thinking something like this to enable complete async collaborations between software developers and biologists.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@PaigeLemen @PhDVoice @AcademicChatter International students on an F1 visa can’t actually work second jobs even if they want / can.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@ATinyGreenCell This is what I’m kind of working on at the moment.

Also, shout out to @valley_dao for wanting to build an ecosystem where we can distribute knowledge and risks and rewards.

[Radhakrishna Sanka @rkrishnasanka]

@ATinyGreenCell Even in the history of semiconductors, a lot of these innovations happened because there was a demand for electronics for the telephone. We either spend the next 50 years looking for the synbio telephone (what vc’s do) or we upend the business models.