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.
A Comparative Review of Bioinformatics Pipeline Frameworks (2025 Edition)
A technical deep dive into five prominent bioinformatics pipeline frameworks: Nextflow, Flyte, Prefect, Airflow, and Slurm. Understanding their execution models, dataflow philosophies, and infrastructure expectations.
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.
Reverse Complement Generator
Paste a sequence and get its reverse, complement, or both.
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.
