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Inside DNAnexus
Company blog · blog.dnanexus.comsciencedata
Inside DNAnexus is the company blog at blog.dnanexus.com, writing about science and data. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Crumble: Compressing Genome Sequencing Quality Values with a Tetris Analogy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its breakdown of crumble, a genomic compression tool, which one commenter shares as an approach to the problem of compressing genomic data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Case studies, webinars, white papers and videos on genomics, multi-omics and the technologies shaping precision health, from DNAnexus experts.
Most-linked posts?
- Crumble: Compressing Genome Sequencing Quality Values with a Tetris Analogy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-24
What Hacker News says?
Here is one approach for that https://github.com/jkbonfield/crumble https://blog.dnanexus.com/2018-07-23-breaking-down-crumble/
Comment linking /2018-07-23-breaking-down-crumble/
on “The Desperate Quest for Genomic Compression Algorithms”Submitted Crumble: Compressing Genome Sequencing Quality Values with a Tetris Analogy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DeepVariant: A New Deep Learning Variant Caller from the Google Brain Team as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PrecisionFDA: Why It Matters as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted DNAnexus Developer Program as a story · 1 points
HN discussion