The OS for Programmable Science
Understanding the core principles and philosophy that drive Tracer's mission to accelerate scientific discovery through better observability
3 Ways to Slash Bioinformatics Cloud Costs
Current cloud cost monitoring tools fall short for bioinformatics, leading to a clear and growing demand for better solutions
Scalable FASTQ QC: Merging, Automation, and MultiQC Reporting
A guide to scalable FASTQ quality control, including merging strategies, automation techniques, and MultiQC reporting.
How to Properly Filter Missing Genotypes in bcftools
A practical guide to filtering missing genotypes in VCF files using bcftools, with examples and best practices for handling missing data in variant calling.
Interview with Mathieu Latreille: Bridging Biology and Computation
Mathieu Latreille, biomedical researcher and TechBio entrepreneur, discusses the bottlenecks in modern research: fractured datasets, inconsistent metadata, and the cultural challenges that make collaboration between biologists and computational scientists unnecessarily difficult.
A Practical Guide to Scalable Bioinformatics Workflows on AWS Batch
A comprehensive guide to AWS Batch architecture, its core components, and how it enables scalable batch processing for compute-intensive workloads.
The Most Common Bioinformatics Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Learn about the most frequent errors in bioinformatics workflows and practical strategies to prevent them.
The Silent Gene Name Corruption Everyone Misses
A Simple and Practical Guide to Stop Excel From Breaking Your Biology
How to Handle Multi-Mapped Reads in Ribo-seq
A comprehensive guide on handling multi-mapped reads in Ribo-seq data analysis.
Differential Gene Expression Analysis: RNA-Seq with Pathway Enrichment
A comprehensive tutorial on RNA-seq differential expression analysis using DESeq2 and pathway enrichment with clusterProfiler. Learn to identify genes and pathways responding to ALDH1A1 inhibition in ovarian cancer cells.
Bioinformatics Pipeline Frameworks (2025): Nextflow vs Flyte vs Airflow vs Snakemake
Choosing the wrong pipeline framework can break reproducibility and double compute costs. We compare Nextflow, Flyte, Prefect, Airflow, and Slurm using real production bioinformatics workloads—what scales, what fails, and when to use each.
The OS for Programmable Science
Understanding the core principles and philosophy that drive Tracer's mission to accelerate scientific discovery through better observability.
Visibility Is All You Need
An idea for a new high compute monitoring system to improve productivity and efficiency for scientific computing
Uncovering Hidden Cloud Costs
Discover the challenges of monitoring and controlling cloud spend in scientific computing, and what teams can do about it.
3 Ways to Slash Bioinformatics Cloud Costs
Current cloud cost monitoring tools fall short for bioinformatics, leading to a clear and growing demand for better solutions.
Cloud cost monitoring in bioinformatics
Monitoring and understanding costs for scientific workloads running on cloud technology infrastructure such as AWS, remains a persistent challenge that current tools fail to solve.
Hackathon Day Four: Thursday, June 5th
Tracer's beta launch is nearly here - today we shipped onboarding, fallback tracing, branch-based installs, and better OOM insights.
Hackathon Day Three: Wednesday, June 4th
Kenya Day Three: A well-earned break, a tour through Nairobi's rich history, and rooftop views before diving back into build mode.
Hackathon Day Two: Tuesday, June 3rd
Kenya Day Two: Tracer runs natively on Mac ARM, the blog goes live, and we're learning why having the right foundation matters.
Hackathon Day One: Monday, June 2nd
A hackathon kick-off note from Laura, our COO, and records from our first day in Nairobi, Kenya.
Tracer Glossary
Comprehensive definitions of key terms in bioinformatics, computational biology, and scientific computing.
