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Reproducible, Reproducible, Reproducible
The same features of the Genpax analysis that mean that all strains of a species can be compared in one location with a common analysis...
Mar 23, 20231 min read


Scaling new bioinformatic heights
Genpax analysis was created for the real-world problem from the bottom-up with scalability as an essential requirement. Scalability is a...
Mar 1, 20232 min read


A resolution is coming
When strains are evolving at 1 to 10 nucleotides per year per genome, it is important to address as much of the genome sequence...
Feb 16, 20233 min read


Why near-zero error matters
With some variation by species and genome size, most bacterial pathogens normally change at a rate of up to 10 SNP changes per genome per...
Jan 27, 20233 min read


Easy adoption enables widescale use
While the costs and ease of sequencing have been falling, one common obstacle to adoption is the requirement for local genomics staff and...
Jan 6, 20231 min read


Is AMR really a product of misuse and abuse by doctors?
It is repeatedly stated that we face a global challenge of antimicrobial resistance and catastrophic health and economic impacts, and...
Jun 1, 20223 min read


Are we winning or losing the fight against TB?
At one level, the numbers look good, but if you look again, maybe not. Once upon a time, TB started out as something else, probably some...
May 3, 20222 min read


Genomics and knowing the enemy.
As Sun Tzu famously said: ‘know your enemy’, or more correctly: ‘If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of...
Apr 4, 20223 min read


What is the larger threat of hospital-associated infection?
COVID-19 is not the pandemic I was predicting. Year after year, for just over 10 years a new class of about 150 young, smart medical...
Mar 1, 20223 min read


A hidden cost of COVID?
Life is full of initially hidden and unintended impacts and consequences; for something as huge and pervasive as COVID, no doubt they...
Feb 1, 20223 min read


When will someone call laST orders?
Sequence Typing (ST) is a widely established and used methodology. It is most certainly better than its predecessors from the era before...
Jan 3, 20224 min read
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