genomics

“So a company like Freenome will use machine learning and deep learning with genomics to be able to tell whether you have cancer early enough, such that the cure rate, success rate could be 80%, a hundred percent.”

“There are applications in genomics and, you know, drones and Bitcoin and three printing and things like that that do run into regulatory challenges. And so you know, some of the reason that people see these things that are perceived as fluff that, that, you kn…”

“The, there's almost like a deterministic nature of Moore's law, that the cost of compute and cost of genomics and these things decreasing exponentially. That actually is something that's really hard to avoid, and so in my mind, it's not really a question of if…”

“And an easy way to think about genomics is there's a sequencing layer, which is the companies that make the sequencing machines like Illumina, which is like sort of Intel and chips. And then there's the application layer, which are companies that are using thi…”

“Unfortunately the maps that we have today are really maps of function that just say where things that are, things like genes, biomolecules, where they are encoded in the genome, but it says really nothing about how they function and which parts of the genes do…”

“We certainly haven't lived up to that, and in fact, it's been a little difficult to see exactly where genomics has had a true application today.”

“I think in order for genomics to be used in diagnostics or predictive models of are you going to get sick, I think it has to be combined with actual time series biomarker data”

“So the big problem is that it's a long gap between genomics to risk, and actually the environmental factors are also so key.”

“Science is something that you can't schedule creativity or the ability to come through a breakthrough. So if you have understood the science of colorectal cancer, what you've learned about a stool test probably is not going to be very useful for a breast cance…”

“And I think genomics had signal, but not as much signal as I think people were hoping for.”