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William Chow

@williamchow.bsky.social

Genomics | Bioinformatics | TechBio Director of Genomics @ Basecamp Research Previously Sanger Institute + Genome Reference Consortium, Earth Biogenome Project, Darwin Tree of Life, GenomeArk, Vertebrate Genome Project, T2T consortium. Views my own.

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We’re thrilled to welcome NVIDIA as our latest investor β€” and grateful for their longstanding collaboration in building EDEN.

NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, has invested pre-Series C in Basecamp Research, accelerating our research & development efforts.

www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

19.01.2026 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What would it take for one AI system to design gene therapies, cell therapies, and antibiotics?

@faylinphd.bsky.social explores how EDEN was built to test that idea β€” using trillions of tokens of evolutionary DNA to learn biology’s underlying rules.

Read it here: www.genengnews.com/topics/artif...

15.01.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing EDEN β€” a 28B-parameter biological foundation model trained on 9.7T nucleotide tokens, including >10B novel genes from >1M species. This evolutionary scale is what makes generalisable biological design possible.

Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

15.01.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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EDEN: a family of genomic language models trained on up to 9.7 trillion nucleotides from @basecamp-research.bsky.social's BaseData can design large serine recombinases, bridge recombinases, and antimicrobial peptides.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to have played a small part in this!

13.01.2026 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How AI is mapping the tree of life | Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA
YouTube video by Microsoft How AI is mapping the tree of life | Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA

Check out Ep2 of the documentary series Catalyst spotlighting our mission at @basecamp-research.bsky.social and our goal to map the tree of life 🌍🦠🧬 in a fair and equitable way to power next gen BioAI. co-produced by Microsoft and NVIDIA.

youtu.be/IbN3ClySZsg

19.07.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re thrilled to share that Basecamp Research has been named to Fast Company’s 2025 World’s Most Innovative Companies list! πŸš€

A huge thank you to our incredible team, partners, and the wider scientific community who support our mission.

Read more here: bit.ly/43S6CrF

#FCMostInnovative

18.03.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Future of Cell & Gene Therapiesβ€”Powered by AI

Basecamp Research CEO @glengowers.bsky.social is speaking at BIO-Europe Spring on how AI + the world’s largest biological dataset are shaping gene writing & programmable insertion.

For info go to bit.ly/3FpB9Df

#BIOEuropeSpring #GeneticMedicine

12.03.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’Š BigDataWire explores how Basecamp Research is pushing the boundaries of discoveryβ€”traveling to the most remote corners of the planet to gather novel biological data that’s transforming AI drug development.

Read the story here: bigdatawire.com/2025/02/18/g...

#AI #drugdiscovery #biodiversity

20.02.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks @naturebiotech.bsky.social for covering our work building the world’s largest foundational biological database for training AI.

πŸ”¬ What does this mean? Smarter AI, deeper insights & innovations that aid both biodiversity and drug discovery.

Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

17.02.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”οΈ The journal Environmental Biome has published a our collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, examining the impact of sewage and wastewater from increased Antarctic tourism on antimicrobial resistance near the shores of the Earth's last great wildernesses.

πŸ“˜ Read it here: bit.ly/3Chqut0

21.01.2025 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—» Basecamp Research's Oliver Vince is headed to #Davos2025. This year’s #WEF theme, "Collaboration for the Intelligent Age," aligns with our mission to build a global network of biodiversity partnerships to train next-gen AI.

πŸ“… Want to connect in Davos? Reach out at explore@basecamp-research.com.

16.01.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Heading to #JPM2025? 🧬 Basecamp Research's
Co-founder & CEO @glengowers.bsky.social, CCO Anupama Hoey & new CSO John Finn will be there, meeting partners and exploring new collaborations.

πŸ“… If you’d like to meet in San Francisco, contact us at explore@basecamp-research.com

07.01.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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🧬We're excited to share a series of announcements: John Finn has joined Basecamp Research as CSO, we've opened a US office and lab & we built one of Europe's largest industrial supercomputers with NVIDIA Accelerated Computing. Read Fierce Biotech's story here: www.fiercebiotech.com/research/com...
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06.01.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—žοΈ In the The Biologist's latest issue, Basecamp Research's @glengowers.bsky.social & Oliver Vince explain how to equitably supply the high-quality biological data that advanced AI models need.

Basecamp Research is also in the running for
#SXSWLondon. You can help by voting for us: bit.ly/3VDFBn8

17.12.2024 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🎦 We're in an era where nature & synthetic biology collide, @glengowers.bsky.social told the 2024 Forbes Healthcare Summit. You can watch his panel "The New Era Of Drug Discovery": bit.ly/4fgaZPy

Basecamp Research is also in the running for #SXSWLondon. You can help by voting for us: bit.ly/3VDFBn8

16.12.2024 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0