Bioinformatics, distilled.

Keep up with the field without drowning in PDFs. The strongest new open-access research — genomics, single-cell, proteomics, systems biology and beyond — each turned into a clear, few-minute read you can trust. Three new papers a week.

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Cell · Aug 1, 2026 · 1 min read
A complete diploid human genome benchmark for personalized genomics

The authors present a near-perfect telomere-to-telomere diploid genome benchmark for HG002 that adds 15.3 percent of previously unmapped genomic sequence and shows de novo assembly outperforms standard variant calling by an order of magnitude.

genomics intermediate
Vietnam Journal of Mathematics · Jul 14, 2026 · 1 min read
Tropical Geometry of Phylogenetic Tree Space: A statistical Perspective

By representing phylogenetic trees in a tropical geometric space called "palm tree space," researchers achieved faster geodesic computations and better performance in statistical tasks like PCA compared to the standard BHV tree space.

phylogenetics advanced
Nature · May 19, 2026 · 2 min read
Accelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist

Co-Scientist, a multi-agent AI system built on Gemini 2.0, autonomously generates and refines novel scientific hypotheses that were successfully validated in wet-lab experiments for acute myeloid leukemia and liver fibrosis.

machine learning in biology intermediate
Molecular Biology and Evolution · May 1, 2026 · 1 min read
IQ-TREE 3: phylogenomic inference software using complex evolutionary models

IQ-TREE 3 is a major update to a popular phylogenetic software tool, introducing advanced evolutionary models, sequence simulation, and tools for analyzing massive datasets like pandemic viral genomes.

phylogenetics intermediate
Patterns · Jul 1, 2026 · 1 min read
BioMaster: Multi-agent system for automated bioinformatics analysis workflow

BioMaster is a multi-agent framework utilizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation and role-based agents to automate complex bioinformatics workflows like RNA-seq and Hi-C processing more accurately than existing methods.

bioinformatics intermediate
Briefings in Bioinformatics · Jul 1, 2026 · 1 min read
Advancing bioinformatics with language models: components, applications, and perspectives

This review provides a comprehensive overview of large language models in bioinformatics, detailing their core components like tokenization and transformer architectures, and their applications across genomics, proteomics, and drug discovery.

machine learning in biology intro