What's Different? Using the model - by Elliot Hershberg

If you’re joining for the first time, I’ve just completed the What’s Different? series. If we are in the middle of a revolution in biology, what are the forces driving it? Over the series, I developed a four-component model: Sequencing, Synthesis, Scale, and Software. All of the posts are now available: Part one: Sequencing Part two: Synthesis Part three: Scale Part four: Software The core idea is that we have truly arrived at a unique moment in biology. We have seen one of the greatest rates of technological improvement in history for one of our central measurement technologies—DNA sequencing. Synthetic DNA is now a commodity, and new technologies are being developed with the goal of synthesizing entire chromosomes and genomes. If that isn’t enough, these foundational technologies are now being combined with breakthrough molecular tools like CRISPR and the massive modeling advances from the world of software. All models are wrong, but some are useful. My goal in this essay is to demon

If you’re joining for the first time, I’ve just completed the What’s Different? series. If we are in the middle of a revolution in biology, what are the forces driving it? Over the series, I developed a four-component model: Sequencing, Synthesis, Scale, and Software. All of the posts are now available: Part one: Sequencing Part two: Synthesis Part three: Scale Part four: Software The core idea is that we have truly arrived at a unique moment in biology. We have seen one of the greatest rates of technological improvement in history for one of our central measurement technologies—DNA sequencing