dddiaz1
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Comment · 9 months ago
https://dddiaz.com/
Blog about Genomics, Type 1 Diabetes, and Life.
Comment · 2 years ago
Great to see it be OTC.
But it's weird that it is advertised to last for 15 days, while the prescription version for T1ds/T2ds only lasts for 10 days. The hardware looks the same.
Comment · 2 years ago
Very Cool!
I also have T1D and its a natural source for cool software engineering projects like this.
You might like these two posts: Using machine learning to predict when I excercised: https://dddiaz.com/post/glucose-datascience/
Using Genomic Software to explore my auto-immune genes: https://dddiaz.com/post/hla/
Comment · 3 years ago
If you are interested in genomics, some other reads I recommend:
The Gene: An intimate history. An incredible retelling of how we discovered the gene, from Mendel and his pea plants to next generation sequencing. https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Intimate-History-Siddhartha-Mukh...
The Genome Odyssey A series of patient stories documenting the process of using genomics to diagnose and treat rare diseases in patients https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250234980
The author of this article, nick lane also has some popular bio books, in particular: Transformers, The deep chemistry of life. https://www.amazon.com/Transformer-Deep-Chemistry-Life-Death...
Comment · 3 years ago
Another really cool use case for FPGAs is for ultra fast analysis of genomic data. This guide walks you through setting up an F1 instance (AWS FPGA) to do that: https://aws-quickstart.github.io/quickstart-illumina-dragen/
Comment · 4 years ago
I have absolutely loved working in genomics. I am a huge believer that genomics will be a huge part of healthcare in the future, and i have two examples to motivate that point that I think may be interesting to the reader.
1) The Moderna vaccine was made with the help of illumina genome sequencing. They were able to sequence the virus and send that sequence of nucleotides over to moderna for them to develop the vaccine - turning a classically biology problem, into a software problem, reducing the need for them to bring the virus in house.
2) Illumina has a cancer screening test called Galleri, that can identify a bunch of cancers from a blood test. It identifies mutated dna released by cancer cells. This is huge, if we can identify cancer before someone even starts to show symptoms, the chances of having a useful treatment dramatically go up.
Disclaimer: I work for illumina, views my own.
I wrote some more about why genomics is cool from a technical point of view here (truly big data, hardware accelerated bioinformatics) : https://dddiaz.com/post/genomics-is-cool/