Keith Robison
@omicsomics.bsky.social
Computational biologist & blogger
What lab experiments would *you* like to run remotely on Ginkgo’s autonomous lab?
How will *you* unlock biology if you can focus on hypotheses & data and leave the wet work to us?
Reach out to me if you’d like to brainstorm!
How will *you* unlock biology if you can focus on hypotheses & data and leave the wet work to us?
Reach out to me if you’d like to brainstorm!
January 23, 2026 at 4:32 PM
What lab experiments would *you* like to run remotely on Ginkgo’s autonomous lab?
How will *you* unlock biology if you can focus on hypotheses & data and leave the wet work to us?
Reach out to me if you’d like to brainstorm!
How will *you* unlock biology if you can focus on hypotheses & data and leave the wet work to us?
Reach out to me if you’d like to brainstorm!
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NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:47 PM
NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...
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"Confused American family visiting European football stadium can’t find parking lot to get drunk in before the game, ends up in a restaurant."
January 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM
"Confused American family visiting European football stadium can’t find parking lot to get drunk in before the game, ends up in a restaurant."
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Bacteria get payback for penicillin
'Here, we demonstrate that bacterial species induce fungal cell wall remodeling to increase exposure of both β-1,3-glucan and mannan, resulting in increased immunogenicity.'
'Here, we demonstrate that bacterial species induce fungal cell wall remodeling to increase exposure of both β-1,3-glucan and mannan, resulting in increased immunogenicity.'
Bacterial metabolites induce cell wall remodeling, antifungal resistance, and immune recognition of commensal fungi
Davis et al. demonstrate that common gastrointestinal bacteria secrete metabolites
that induce global cell remodeling in Candida albicans. C. albicans uses the HOG cascade,
a central stress pathway, t...
www.cell.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Bacteria get payback for penicillin
'Here, we demonstrate that bacterial species induce fungal cell wall remodeling to increase exposure of both β-1,3-glucan and mannan, resulting in increased immunogenicity.'
'Here, we demonstrate that bacterial species induce fungal cell wall remodeling to increase exposure of both β-1,3-glucan and mannan, resulting in increased immunogenicity.'
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We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/
In remembrance of Peer Bork | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
www.embl.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
We mourn the passing of Peer Bork, EMBO Member since 2000: https://www.embl.org/news/embl-announcements/in-remembrance-of-peer-bork/
My notes on the #JPM2026 schedule - when the genomics and related companies will be presenting
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/jpm-...
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/jpm-...
JPM 2026 Schedule Through A Molecular Tools & Testing Lens
The J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is this week in San Francisco. As with every other one, I'm tracking any news remotely from Boston. ...
omicsomics.blogspot.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:40 PM
My notes on the #JPM2026 schedule - when the genomics and related companies will be presenting
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/jpm-...
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/jpm-...
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
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When polishing scientific figures for publication, I try to limit fonts and font sizes to reduce visual noise. But doing this by hand is very tedious.
So I vibe coded a small web app to standardize text in SVGs: jef.works/SVG-Text-Sta...
Try it out! Hope it’s useful!
So I vibe coded a small web app to standardize text in SVGs: jef.works/SVG-Text-Sta...
Try it out! Hope it’s useful!
January 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
When polishing scientific figures for publication, I try to limit fonts and font sizes to reduce visual noise. But doing this by hand is very tedious.
So I vibe coded a small web app to standardize text in SVGs: jef.works/SVG-Text-Sta...
Try it out! Hope it’s useful!
So I vibe coded a small web app to standardize text in SVGs: jef.works/SVG-Text-Sta...
Try it out! Hope it’s useful!
Stalking the Elusive Product Market Fit
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What drives product success? How do you know if you have the right product in the wrong market?
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/stal...
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What drives product success? How do you know if you have the right product in the wrong market?
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/stal...
Stalking the Elusive Product Market Fit
I had a wonderful breakfast conversation back in November with Arima Genomics CEO Sid Selvaraj where he brought up the topic of product mark...
omicsomics.blogspot.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Stalking the Elusive Product Market Fit
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What drives product success? How do you know if you have the right product in the wrong market?
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/stal...
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What drives product success? How do you know if you have the right product in the wrong market?
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/stal...
Scales of Instrumentation and Automation
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An explainer on Bench, Walkup, Workcell, and Autonomous Lab scales of laboratory instrumentation
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/scal...
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An explainer on Bench, Walkup, Workcell, and Autonomous Lab scales of laboratory instrumentation
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/scal...
Scales of Instrumentation and Automation
Back in September I moved into a product role within the automation unit at Ginkgo, where we sell autonomous laboratories. I'm going to end...
omicsomics.blogspot.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Scales of Instrumentation and Automation
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An explainer on Bench, Walkup, Workcell, and Autonomous Lab scales of laboratory instrumentation
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/scal...
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An explainer on Bench, Walkup, Workcell, and Autonomous Lab scales of laboratory instrumentation
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/scal...
Sequencing Instrumrnt Outlook 2026
My observations & predictions on sequencing instrument companies
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My observations & predictions on sequencing instrument companies
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omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/sequ...
Sequencing Instrument Outlook 2026
A computational biologist's personal views on new technologies & publications on genomics & proteomics and their impact on drug discovery
omicsomics.blogspot.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Sequencing Instrumrnt Outlook 2026
My observations & predictions on sequencing instrument companies
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omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/sequ...
My observations & predictions on sequencing instrument companies
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omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/sequ...
The Joy of Rediscovery
Finding a fundamental constant lurking in routine data
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omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Finding a fundamental constant lurking in routine data
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The Joy of Rediscovery
A key goal of science is to discover new information, and it is one of the great joys of science to believe you have done so. Sometimes it ...
omicsomics.blogspot.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The Joy of Rediscovery
Finding a fundamental constant lurking in routine data
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omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
Finding a fundamental constant lurking in routine data
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omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/12/rnac...
UltraMarathonRT: When Your Reverse Transcription Must Go Long
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UltraMarathonRT: When Your Reverse Transcription Must Go Long
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RNAConnect: When Your Reverse Transcription Must Go Long
The 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were both the early years and golden years for nucleic acid enzymology. Scientists unraveling the secrets of DNA ...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/12/rnac...
UltraMarathonRT: When Your Reverse Transcription Must Go Long
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UltraMarathonRT: When Your Reverse Transcription Must Go Long
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Oh this poll is fascinating
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Oh this poll is fascinating
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losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
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So, let's play make-believe and pretend that Prasad has rock solid proof the vaccine killed 10 kids.
He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
FDA says it won't release details of claimed Covid vaccine deaths in 'near term'
Details from an investigation by CBER Director Vinay Prasad into 10 alleged child deaths related to Covid-19 vaccines won't be coming soon, an FDA spokesperson told Endpoints News on Wednesday.
endpoints.news
December 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
So, let's play make-believe and pretend that Prasad has rock solid proof the vaccine killed 10 kids.
He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
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According to the microbial ecologist Puri López-García, pictured here at a salt flat in the Chilean Andes, some 25% to 50% of all bacterial cells may be parasites of other cells.
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine
The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
According to the microbial ecologist Puri López-García, pictured here at a salt flat in the Chilean Andes, some 25% to 50% of all bacterial cells may be parasites of other cells.
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Long-read genome sequencing is new first-tier generic test in diagnostics of rare diseases
So satisfying to see a long journey end in best-possible diagnostic test for patients with rare diseases @radboudumc.bsky.social.
www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...
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So satisfying to see a long journey end in best-possible diagnostic test for patients with rare diseases @radboudumc.bsky.social.
www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...
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World first: Radboudumc pioneers new genetic test in clinical practice - New test is faster, more efficient, and provides more diagnoses for rare diseases
17 November 2025
www.radboudumc.nl
November 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Long-read genome sequencing is new first-tier generic test in diagnostics of rare diseases
So satisfying to see a long journey end in best-possible diagnostic test for patients with rare diseases @radboudumc.bsky.social.
www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...
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So satisfying to see a long journey end in best-possible diagnostic test for patients with rare diseases @radboudumc.bsky.social.
www.radboudumc.nl/en/news-item...
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A cadre of former colleagues is developing software tools for tracking designed genome edits, propagating annotations to the edited genomes & aligning in a graph-aware manner to assess the success of editing
If you are a synthetic biologist, you should check it out
bsky.app/profile/hofe...
If you are a synthetic biologist, you should check it out
bsky.app/profile/hofe...
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)
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
A cadre of former colleagues is developing software tools for tracking designed genome edits, propagating annotations to the edited genomes & aligning in a graph-aware manner to assess the success of editing
If you are a synthetic biologist, you should check it out
bsky.app/profile/hofe...
If you are a synthetic biologist, you should check it out
bsky.app/profile/hofe...
Another podcast host foolhardy enough to have me on! 🤣
Seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed the session
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Ep 2: Evolution of Biotech with Keith Robison youtu.be/zu9P5T6GJPY?...
Seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed the session
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Ep 2: Evolution of Biotech with Keith Robison youtu.be/zu9P5T6GJPY?...
Ep 2: Evolution of Biotech with Keith Robison
YouTube video by Legible Bio
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November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Another podcast host foolhardy enough to have me on! 🤣
Seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed the session
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Ep 2: Evolution of Biotech with Keith Robison youtu.be/zu9P5T6GJPY?...
Seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed the session
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Ep 2: Evolution of Biotech with Keith Robison youtu.be/zu9P5T6GJPY?...
Nineteen - musings on shrinking the number of amino acids in a proteome
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Nineteen
If I had been more atop things, I would have written this just under a week ago, on the nineteenth anniversary of my starting to write in th...
omicsomics.blogspot.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Nineteen - musings on shrinking the number of amino acids in a proteome
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omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/11/nine...