Nature has evolved solutions to survive the impossible, imagine what it could do for us 🧊
We're thrilled to have signed a new, expanded collaboration agreement with the British Antarctic Survey (@bas.ac.uk) as part of our work building the Trillion Gene Atlas.
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Welcoming Dr. Thulani Makhalanyane as an advisor to the Trillion Gene Atlas — bringing his experience leading the African Microbiome Project to a global effort to expand known genetic diversity 100x and accelerate discovery for public & ecosystem health.
#TrillionGeneAtlas #Microbiome
📈Surreal to see Basecamp Research on the NYSE after being named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.
Most biology hasn’t been discovered — but we act like it has. We’re working to map the unknown 99% with the Trillion Gene Atlas.
Grateful for our incredible team and collaborators. 🚀
AI mastered Go. Then language. Now it’s learning to write DNA.
At SXSW, Basecamp Research CEO @glengowers.bsky.social joined Microsoft’s Alicia Frame and UPenn’s @delafuentelab.bsky.social to unpack what that actually means in practice.
Watch the full "Decoding Nature" panel: youtu.be/TJkRhNJaBMk
In 2019, Glen Gowers and Oliver Vince brought a solar-powered DNA sequencing lab into the field and found that more than half the data had never been seen before.
That insight became @basecamp-research.bsky.social: a platform built on the idea that biological discovery depends on context.
Basecamp Research named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Biotech Companies—for the 2nd year running 🏆
Fast Company spotlighted our EDEN models — trained on data 10× larger than public datasets.
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We’re launching the Trillion Gene Atlas with Anthropic, NVIDIA, PacBio, and UltimaGenomics.
🌍 The Goal: To expand known genomes 100×, sequencing 100M+ species to build foundation models grounded in evolution itself.
🔗 Read more: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
If you saw the amazing man cures dog story, today at #SXSW - we'll be unpacking the AI and science behind a potential new wave of cures. Please join us for "Decoding Nature: How AI is Learning to Program Biology"
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When Basecamp Research Co-founder Oliver Vince mentioned to the BBC that our EDEN AI models were trained on data from 1M+ new species, it caught a listener’s attention.
The BBC’s More or Less dug into the story.
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📰 @elpais.com speaks with @delafuentelab.bsky.social — the first academic pioneer to work with EDEN, our evolutionary foundation model trained on 10B novel genetic sequences from 1M+ species. In the lab, it generated antimicrobial peptides with 97% success.
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🎙️ SXSW London has announced its latest wave of speakers, including @financialtimes.com journalist Aanu Adeoye in conversation with Basecamp Research co-founders @glengowers.bsky.social &Oliver Vince on June 1.
Visit sxswlondon.com for details!
We’re thrilled to welcome Francesco Farina as Head of AI Research! After working on EDEN-AI with us at NVIDIA, he’s now leading our next wave of breakthroughs in AI + biology. Let’s go! 🚀
For more on EDEN & open roles visit: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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At the World Economic Forum, experts warned antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health & macroeconomic threat — projected to cause 10M deaths a year by 2050 & cut global GDP by $3.4T.
Thanks @thealexknapp.bsky.social for reporting on how EDEN models could help
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A new type of customised treatment could allow children with ultra-rare conditions to swap short horrible lives for something closer to normality
We’re thrilled to welcome NVIDIA as our latest investor — 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.
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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 — using trillions of tokens of evolutionary DNA to learn biology’s underlying rules.
Read it here: www.genengnews.com/topics/artif...
How combining AI with genetic databases can harness lessons from evolution to develop new diseases treatments.
An international collaboration using information from more than 1mn species offers potential solutions to problems from cancers to drug-resistant superbugs.
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Introducing EDEN — 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...
Gene editing’s long-running “holy grail” is programmable gene insertion: placing large pieces of DNA precisely, safely & durably, regardless of mutation.
@endpts.com Endpoints tracks John Finn’s gene-insertion quest—from Intellia and Tome now to Basecamp Research.
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How can AI and nature’s hidden code lead to programmable gene therapies?
Basecamp Research Co-founder & CEO GlenGowers.bsky.social explores this question at @financialtimes.com Times Live Global Pharma and Biotech Summit (Nov 11–12) with industry leaders.
👉 For full details, visit bit.ly/4pPcJpd
We’re thrilled to share that Basecamp Research has been named to Fast Company’s 2025 World’s Most Innovative Companies list! 🚀
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
Excited for #GTC2025! 💚 Gus Minto-Cowcher joins Microsoft onstage to share how Basecamp Research uses Azure VMs & AI Services—accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs—to decode complex biological data.
Catch it live: March 19, 12pm PDT @ Microsoft Theater. Don’t miss it!
#MLOps #GeneticMedicine #DrugDiscovery
The Future of Cell & Gene Therapies—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
💊 BigDataWire explores how Basecamp Research is pushing the boundaries of discovery—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
Thanks @naturebiotech.bsky.social for covering our work building the world’s largest foundational biological database for training AI.
🔬 What does this mean? Smarter AI, deeper insights & innovations that aid both biodiversity and drug discovery.
Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🏔️ 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.
📘 Read it here: bit.ly/3Chqut0
🌱 For #WEF2025, Tendai Chisowa & Viswa Colluru discuss how studying nature can transform AI in the pharmaceutical industry—lowering costs and speeding up innovation.
Thanks Tendai & Viswa for including Basecamp's work to close the data gap.
Read the article here: weforum.org/meetings/wor...
📅 Meet Us at Davos: Join Oliver at the "Accelerating Business Solutions for Nature" panel on January 22.
Want to connect in Davos? Reach out to us at explore@basecamp-research.com
🎥 In this video, André Hoffmann—author of "The New Nature of Business," Roche board Vice-Chairman & a Basecamp Research investor—explores biodiversity as an asset class www.weforum.org/videos/biodi...
As #WEF2025 helps define the year's priorities, 3 themes stand out: safeguarding the planet, advancing industries in the intelligent age, & reimagining growth.
