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Pilosa 1.0 Released
Featured • 7/10/2018 • 2 min read
Pilosa is happy to announce version 1.0, available as of last week! After eight feature-heavy major releases since our launch, there were a lot of loose ends to clean up. As followers of semantic versioning, 1.0 is a big milestone, and a binding one. Although Pilosa is far from “complete”, this release signifies a certain stability. We plan to support the current feature set and API through all 1.x releases, and that entails more than you might think.
Genome Comparisons in 4 Milliseconds
Featured • 5/1/2018 • 9 min read
6 Gigabits. That’s about how much data is encoded in your DNA. That may sound like a lot, or a little depending on your comfort level, but with 7 billion humans on the planet, that we’re in “big data” territory is undeniable. Can we bend Pilosa to a problem of this mind boggling size? How fast can we compare two genomes? Or two thousand? What about finding groups of related individuals, or certain disease markers? How do you even represent this kind of data as a binary matrix? Let’s take a look…
